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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.32 (search)
eyes, rather heavy beard. Such is the personal description of Colonel Porterfield by two of the writers of the diaries at that time. From Staunton, Va., to Grafton, over the turnpike roads, it is a distance of 143 miles. The first 112 miles is over the Staunton and Parkersburg pike, when you reach Beverley, that was the counandolph county. There you take Philippi pike, and you reach Philippi, the county seat of Barbour county, at a distance of thirty-one miles, and from Philippi to Grafton, over the Fitterman pike it is eighteen miles to Grafton. All of these roads were made by the State of Virginia prior to the year of 1861, under what was known aGrafton. All of these roads were made by the State of Virginia prior to the year of 1861, under what was known as the internal improvement system of Virginia, and were broad, well-graded turnpikes. The State troops that were included in Governor Letcher's order to rendezvous at Grafton were known as the Provisional Army, and this title had been acquired by the fact that Virginia, through her convention, had adopted conditionally the Provi