Catherine Dowell had just turned nineteen when she married Jacob Manning, and moved from her father's farm near Short Hill Mountain to begin housekeeping at "Chanbourne" in Paeonian Springs, a farm that Jacob had inherited from his mother.
Jacob (her husband) enlisted in the Loudoun Guards (Company C, 17th Virginia Infantry) when the war began and later fought with Mosby's Rangers (43rd Battalion, Virginia Calvary) until he was wounded and permanently disabled three weeks before Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
Five years (1865) later much of their happiness lay in ruins.
in Loudoun County Virginia
Catherine Manning: Farmer's Wife
Shortly after my birth, one of my brothers and one of my sisters, Walter and Florine, were taken sick and died, and were buried by the servants and the workmen of the Washington and old Dominion Railroad, which was being constructed at the time.
Memoirs of James Forrest Manning
History
1861-1862 American Civil War
Economy 1860
Total population: 31,443,321
Farm population:15,141,000(estimated)
Farmers made up 58% of labor force
Number of farms: 2,044,000
Virginia
Total Population: 1,219,630
Loudoun
Total Population Population: 21,774
Acres in Farms: 296,142
# of Farms: 1207
Cash value of Farms: $8,349,371
Hogs: 23,153
Bushels of Wheat: 396,297 |
Science
Hereford, Ayrshire, Galloway, Jersey, and Holstein cattle were imported and bred.
New generation of scientists begin to question the age-old theories of diseases.
