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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
acks, it was fast going to decay. We bivouacked for the night nearly three miles beyond the town, and on the morrow (Sunday) completed the remaining distance of six miles to Warrenton, arriving there about 11 o'clock A. M., parking just outside the town. Our halt here was brief, however, for soon an order came for us to go on picket at a post three miles beyond the town, which we did, having a support of four or five thousand infantry accompany us. Warrenton is the capital town of Fauquier County, and in 1860 was recorded as having a free population of 605. As we were marched around instead of through the town, much to the disgust of our Yankee curiosity, we could take no note of its interior. What we could see of its suburbs, however, was in its favor. A visit to the place in 1879, under more favorable circumstances, enables us to give some description of it. It is a city set on a hill, and, therefore, can be seen for a long distance. Its present population is said to numbe