Night on the Rapidan Picket Inspires War Memoir Song
A National Tribune editor recounts a Civil War reflection about a picket post on the Rapidan during winter 1862-64. A moonlit moment of fear yields to a hymn sung aloud, later recalled by veterans blue and gray as a forceful sign of safety.
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