Hey Scott.. How great to hear from you again. As you may guess, I am
getting together a booklet for the meeting this October in Richmond. It is
called THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN IN THE CIVIL WAR, and I'm trying to flesh
out some of the inputs. If you have copies of an old letter, newspaper
clipping, etc. that you think should go in, send me a copy before the end of
the month.
Also, since my basement is full of CDs and Mary Kay says she wants me to
sell them before we go to the Old Soldiers Home (which hopefully is at least
a decade away) I would appreciate it if in your Civil War brushes you would
mention it. It is the ONLY Virginia Confederate Band music that survives,
plus singing of another 5 selections -- all from the Museum of the
Confederacy.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Scott Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Nelson County -1861
> Cousin Randy,
>
> > 1 - New Market. This is referred to a good bit, usually in regard to
> going to load or
> > meet the packet boat. It must be somewhere down there on the James with
> an hour or so of
> > Norwood.
>
> New Market is listed on page 241 of Martin's Gazetteer of VA (1835). The
> following is an uncited excerpt from a history section on the James River
> Batteau Festival web site (www.batteau.org), "New Market was a flouishing
> shipping port on the James River Canal with the town close to the Tye
River
> entrance to the James."
>
> >2 - Rockfish. This is also referenced, usually as 'returning to Rock
> fish'. Where
> > is/was it?
>
> I would expect that they were referring to the confluence of the Rockfish
> and James Rivers at Howardsville. If I can locate more I'll pass it along.
>
> > 3 - Packet Boat. There is a reference to killing and dressing four
> chickens for the
> > packet boat. Did it serve meals and have sleeping accomodations for
> passengers? I assume
> > it went between Lynchburg and Richmond. How long did that trip take?
>
> Yes, a packet boat had passengers and went from Lynchburg to Richmond.
> Another quote from www.batteau.org, "The first passenger boat, the Harvey,
> left Richmond on November 25, 1841 and covered the 147 miles to Lynchburg
in
> forty hours. During the next year a line of packet boats would leave
> Richmond every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:30am for a fare of eight
> dollars. And two boats, the Joseph C. Cavell and the John Marshall would
> leave alternately for Richmond. The packet boats took thirty to thirty six
> hours to go from Richmond to Lynchburg, a remarkable savings in time over
> the ten days consumed by a batteau."
>
>
> W. Scott Breckinridge Smith
> Lynchburg, Virga.
> www.wscottsmith.com
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