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  • Collection: Morgan Chapel Graffiti

Taunt by Snow's battery and Confederate response

"Snow's Md Battery are whiparsing[?] Rebl Battery in Southern Army in a fair field / [Sgt?]C Reid Snow's Battery [underneath] - "Snows Battery has [?] [?] Rebels[?] lately has [?] - writing on adjacent wall "cowardly"

Writing recording the presence of the 91st Ohio Infantry and 9th Va on July 19, 1864

"The 91st Ohio got dinner on the opposite of the creek here, July 19, 1864" / "The 9th Va[?] Regt got dinner on the other side of the creek July 19th 1864" / "This is the [illegible - right?] and left [illegible] of Jones [illegible] wiscon[?]…

Taunt claiming "Revolutionary fathers" and George Washington were also rebels

"Yank, was not out Revolutionary Fathers also rebels/ George Washington was a Rebel/ August 3rd 1864/a Va Rebel"