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Title: From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign
A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw

Author: William Meade Dame

Release Date: February 7, 2010 [eBook #31192]

Language: English

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FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMOND

[Illustration: WILLIAM MEADE DAME

PRIVATE FIRST COMPANY OF RICHMOND HOWITZERS

1864]

FROM THE RAPIDAN TO RICHMOND

AND

THE SPOTTSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN

A Sketch in Personal Narrative of the Scenes a Soldier Saw

by

WILLIAM MEADE DAME, D. D.
Private, First Company
Richmond Howitzers

Baltimore
Green-Lucas Company
1920

Copyright, 1920, by Harry B. Green

TO
MY COMRADES OF THE ARMY
OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA

[Illustration: WILLIAM MEADE DAME, D. D.

RECTOR MEMORIAL PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

BALTIMORE, MD.

1920]

INTRODUCTION

By

Thomas Nelson Page

"The land where I was born" was, in my childhood, a great battleground.
War--as