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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Diary of Private William S. White, August 29, 1862

To-day we are in sight of the blue hills of Western Virginia. Many years have rolled by since I roamed over those hills and with boyish ardor pursued the flying game. But, alas! Yankee soldiers have taken the place of that mountain game, and I hunt them now, though I don't like to catch too many at once.

We camped to-night in Orange county, about two miles from Gordonsville.

SOURCE: William S. White, A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It, p. 127