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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 6: (search)
Chapter 6: July 31 to October 19, 1863. Sulphur Springs as it was camp life the advance to Culpepper back to the Rappahannock Auburn our Maiden fight Centreville Fairfax Station ovation to Gen. Sickles shot for desertion. Sulphur Springs—or Warrenton Sulphur Springs, as they are usually termed to distinguish them front the more famous White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia—the spot selected for the encampment of the Third Corps, is situated some six miles from Warrenton, on the north bank of the Rappahannock River. Before the war it had been a fashionable watering-place for wealthy planters and their families, who frequented it in large numbers from the States farther south. The buildings originally consisted of two large hotels, one on either side of the road, with a capacity of eight hundred guests. Both of these were in ruins, having been set on fire by shells thrown, we were told, by Union troops the summer previous, to dislodge sharpshooters. It seems