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Fall
Sojourn Along Confederate Avenue
These
particular pieces are located just outside of town near the Lutheran Theological
Seminary. Part of Watson’s Battery, Second Richmond Howitzers, 10-pounder
Parrott Rifles bring a spark of interest to what would otherwise be an average
view. These particular pieces are unmarked, so it’s uncertain when they were
cast. (For more cannon info, check out waymarking.com or
markerhunter.wordpress.com . . . . I’ve identified many of my cannon photos
from these sites). Further down the line you can see the Salem (Virginia)
Artillery. As for a blue sky? Well, you can’t have everything :-)
**HONORED TODAY**
PVT. DAVID WESTMORELAND
Co. K, 52ND
North Carolina Infantry
Born about 1840 --- Died
July 03, 1863 at age 23
Pvt. Westmoreland, a young farmer, may or may not have enlisted
in March 1862 with the knowledge that wife Martha would give birth to a child
in August of that same year, a little girl they would name Arena May. Less than
a month after the death of his brother Lewis in Richmond, he suffered his own
mortal injury at Gettysburg.
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