Edw. A. Moore of the Rockbridge Artillery wrote in THE STORY OF A CANNONEER UNDER STONEWALL JACKSON that he and some of his Lexington friends walked home via Amherst and over the Blue Ridge to Lexington.  



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On 10/10/12, Craig Kilby<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Indeed, and you won't see their names on the list of men issued passes. One of them I happen to know a great deal about, much of it from his Confederate pension in Tennessee, where he ended up via St. Louis County, Missouri after the war. One of the questions was when they took the oath of allegiance and he answered in 1870 so he could vote in county elections. He also goes into some detail about not sticking around for the surrender. His brother, my g-grandfather, also went to St. Louis County and stayed there. He wasn't at Appomattox when the war ended, however. He was a guest of the federal government at wonderful resort called Point Lookout, Maryland. He wasn't paroled until June. How he got home is anybody's guess. I've read many different accounts of that, usually involving hopping a train. Some accounts say the men took their sweet time getting home, such was the hospitality of the vanquished people along the way, there was no big hurry. In the case of Culpeper, not much to go
me to anyway.

Craig Kilby

On Oct 10, 2012, at 2:12 PM, John and Liz Ragosta wrote:

> Many of the Little Fork Rangers famously slipped out of camp before signing any surrender or decommissioning papers. They just went home (Culpeper County -- easy to get to as they were a cavalry unit) never having formally surrendered. 


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