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The Iron Brigade Surrender and Charlottesville Reunion
The narrative follows Major Lounsberry’s fatal wound and fever, the mercy shown by Sheridan’s officers, and the reconciliations in Charlottesville as Rosalie Chilton reunites with Benton after their wartime trials. It closes with the postwar fates of Rosalie, Benton, Ladue, McKinnon, and the surviving Iron Brigade, reflecting enduring Union and Confederate loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lounsberry
Benton
Charlottesville
Snicker's Gap
Barly
Rosalie Chilton
Virginia
Lounsberrys
Dr. Chilton
Black Dan
Maud Pelham
Mrs. Lounsberry
Maud
Yellow Tavern
Ware Hampton
Charleston
Floyd Pelham
Coventry
Shenandoah
Commissariat
Sheridan
Rosalie
Montgomerys
Stanton
Grant
Sherman
Halleck
Department of War
Jack Chilton
Lincoln
Gecous Neers
Maryland
Young Benton
Jon
Ben
Washington
Winchester
Badger
Chilton
Paul Ladue
Lafayette
Jack
Elinor Benton
Iron Brigade
Dames River Canal
Richmond
Army of the Potomac
Dinwiddie
Fifth Corps
Virginia Central
Gordonsville
Wardog Ewell
Jackson
Winston
War Department
Potomac
Jennings
Mathias
Fred Renton
Ragged Mountains
Rivanna
Renton
Gordon
Eighth Corps
Massanutten
Whitney
Pyramus
Blue Ridge
Rapttan
Squire
Elinor
McKinnon
Squire Benton
Bentons
Ladue
Secret Service
Nps
Iron Horse
Georgia Scott
Lee
Rant
Georgia
Kate Falconer
Mississippi Sound
New Orleans
Mobile
Carver
Hancock
Department of the Gulf
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Brother Jack
Hector
Southron
Rosalie Benton
Fred