Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 4, 2006 7:39:55 GMT -6
. . . Brandy Station became a major transportation hub during this time with various dignitaries and people of notoriety, including Custer, traveling by train to see the sights in rural Culpeper. High-ranking Union officers also brought their ladies along for some sightseeing.General Custer arrived in Culpeper in the winter of 1864 shortly after his marriage that February to Elizabeth Bacon Custer, commonly known as Libby. He stayed at Clover Hill, another old estate not far from Stevensburg, and was looking to entertain his new bride.
Enter Blucher Hansbrough.
“Blucher made available his carriage and Custer would drive it with his new wife inside up to the top of the Pony Mountain,” Hall said. “Up here, they would look out across the Rapidan and see, as Libby described, ‘Wild rebels on the other side of the river.’”
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