Myers-Snell Family

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David also served in Company C, 52 Virginia Infantry as a private during the Civil War.
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A story from "The Killing of Lieutenant Meigs" is as follows: Some confederate soldiers killed Lt. Meigs but a federal soldier that escaped told his commanding officers that he was killed by civilians. To adminster a gentle rebuke to theneighborhood, Sheridan ordered that the houses and barns that did not have a Federal guard and the town of Dayton be burned. The torch was at once applied to a number of houses, thereby creating what is known as the "Burnt District."
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Among those who lost their homes in the "Burnt District" were Daniel Garber and Abe Garber.
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The following day residents of Dayton were warned of the impending destruction and moved their property and families into the surrounding lots and fields, where they spent the night, waiting to see their homes go up in flames. In the meantimenews of the burnings that took place the same evening that Meigs was killed and the information that Dayton was to be destroyed as soon as the women, children, and old men were moved out, had reached the Confederate forces.
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The late T. R. Sandy, at that time a young man and a Confederate soldier, was at the home of his father, William Sandy, near Friedens Church, badly wounded in both legs, but beginning to use crutches, when some Yankees came and took two horsesfrom the field and threatened to take him prisoner, but he begged off. That night his father came home from up near Sangerville at about midnight on his best horse.
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T. R. Told him that the Yankees would surely take the horse in the morning and would probably take him also, so the family agreed it would be best for T. R. to take the horse and leave that night, which he did. He took with him his brotherGeorge, a boy of about 12, to open fences and gates as far as Stemphyleytown.
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He had to go across country, through fields and woods, because every road had picket posts. These had to be dodged. His father had informed him where the pickets were. In order to reach a ford in Cook's Creek just below Dayton, on the JosephCoffman farm, he had to pass by the residence. Grazing around the yard were a number of Federal cavalry horses, loose, but saddled and bridled. The noise made by these horses enabled him to get by with his horse without being detected. Hecrossed the ford and reached Stemphleytown without being molested. There he left his brother George with his uncle, David Snell.
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By this time it was three o"clock. The night was dark and drizzly. He went on from Stemphleytown to Dry River. There he ran into a picket post, with camp fire burning low. He walked his horse very slowly until just opposite. then the picketdiscovered him and called "Halt!" He then put his horse into a run up the river and through the Shickel ford. He was now outside of Sheridan's picket lines and had no more trouble.
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