A gentleman from Urbana, on the Rappahannock, informs me
that he witnessed the shelling of that village a few days ago. There are so few
houses that the enemy did not strike any of them. The only blood shed was that of
an old hare, that had taken refuge in a hollow stump.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 91-2
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