Looking for Marlboro Jones. (slave from Civil War period)

The Southern Review | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

It is June 11, 1864. Near Louisa Courthouse, VA, the South Carolina general Wade Hampton leads cavalry troops into what will become known as the Battle of Trevilian Station, one of the bloodiest engagements of the Civil War. During the day, a Rebel unit comes across an unguarded Union camp in which they discover the wagon of General George Armstrong Custer. In it, along with his papers and goods, they find his mulatto mistress. Before they head back to battle they Push the wagon, with the woman still inside, over a precipice and laugh as they listen to her screams. That ...

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