Marsena Patrick News Today

—Richard III EDITOR’S NOTE: America’s COVID-19 death rate has skyrocketed since Thanksgiving, and disease experts say we’re in for a hard winter. But the nation has surmounted tough times before, just as Culpeper County did in the Civil War winter of 1863-64. In December 1863, three years of what Shakespeare would call a “grim-visaged war” had already devastated Culpeper. But matters were about to get a whole lot worse for the county’s war-weary residents hunk...