Exchanges

In a number of locations, soldiers wrote responses to writing addressed to them by soldiers from the opposing side, or to other drawings or writings - and in one case, to a signature:

• the signature "H. P. Adams" left by a Union solider drew the response: "You are a [damn"] " - "You have disgraced the name of Adams"

Such exchanges appear with particular frequency at Morgan Chapel:

• "Look Out Johnny Reb for we are a-coming / And by the help of God / we are bound to lick you traitors.”
• Underneath it, someone else wrote a pointed response: “You did not at Lynchburg and Winchester.

• Three lines of writing
  • “Rebels, if you can hear we will whip you (undecipherable) shore.”
  • “If you do, it will be the first time you impedent (sic) scoundrels”
  • “You are cowards nothing but a thief the robbers of millions of women and children you good for nothing skunk.”

A more concilatory message written by James McCarron also drew a response from a Confederate soldier, provoked apparently by where he had written - Morgan Chapel - rather than the text:

• "Under [this?] spot is [?] rested my [?] [?] for 4 nights [?] short [?] will love to come here to see it [?] our troubled family is restored to peace forever McCarron Co. F 13th regt"
• "After peace is restored you would not want to see it / after [?icrating?] this sacred wall with your name"