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'Witch Bottle' Discovered Under Virginia Highway
YouTube ^ | January 23, 2020 | WTVR CBS 6

Posted on 01/24/2020 10:16:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv

A glass jug found under the median of Interstate 64 in York County is believed to be a "witch bottle" left by Union soldiers during the Civil War, according to researchers.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; history; virginia; witchbottle; yorkcounty
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To: SunkenCiv; Gamecock; SaveFerris
Maybe it was left by a whit-chay woman.

"Doctor? Doctor?"

21 posted on 01/25/2020 12:16:54 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

We’re losing him!


22 posted on 01/25/2020 12:18:22 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin
Many Americans are aware from viewing the scenes of the battle of Fredericksburg in Gods and Generals of the pathos felt by Irish confederates who, because of the unequal nature of the terrain, were able to slaughter so many Irish Yankees.

I wonder if the same feelings held for Germans on the Confederate side when they fought against Unionist Germans many of whom, as you point out, were off the boat immigrants. Somewhere in my digital library I have an article from The Virginia Historical Society which recites a story of a Confederate officer sent from Richmond to recruit the German yeomanry of the Shenandoah Valley. The story says he mounted a wagon to harangue the crowd when a voice interrupted saying "it is okay, you can speak English to us."

The Germans who had pioneered the Shenandoah Valley to settlement beginning in 1726 spoke German as well as English at the time of the Civil War and continued to do so until the government put stop to the practice in the schools and elsewhere at the time of the first world war.

Many of the regiments who fought under the Stars and Bars were solidly German and marched with Stonewall Jackson in his famous Valley campaign of 1862 and can rightfully claim to have participated in virtually every major engagement in the Eastern theater from The Seven Days until Appomattox.

It would be interesting to know if there was any regret on either side at killing other Germans who had become very American or who were rapidly in the process of doing so.


23 posted on 01/25/2020 1:30:26 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Jackson sure socked it to the largely German immigrant Union XI Corps at Chancellorsville.


24 posted on 01/25/2020 2:44:55 AM PST by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
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To: BenLurkin

The volunteered for the job.


25 posted on 01/25/2020 2:57:00 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Theophilus
The tip of Jackson's spear in that remarkable march to Hooker's right flank at Chancellorsville consisted of Valley soldiers among them those from Rockingham and Page counties.

It is interesting that these soldiers, many of them German-Americans, suffered the highest percentage of casualties in that fight against newly immigrated Germans that they were to sustain during a war of unremitting casualties.

By the way, I misspoke in my previous reply, these Valley soldiers were in every significant engagement of the Army of Northern Virginia beginning even before First Manassas where Jackson won the sobriquet, "Stonewall," for himself and his brigade.


26 posted on 01/25/2020 3:22:27 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: SunkenCiv
Oh really?


27 posted on 01/25/2020 4:12:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: clearcarbon

That looks like a bottle of Old Crow


28 posted on 01/25/2020 4:14:59 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: nathanbedford

Jackson truly believed God would take him in His time, therefore had no fear. Could have quit after the Yankees blew his arm to crap but no, he led on. We need men like that among us now.


29 posted on 01/25/2020 5:36:18 AM PST by MikelTackNailer
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To: BenLurkin
"Left by one of the tens of thousands of immigrants who were given rifles and sent to kill Americans in the Southern States?"

My great-great uncle was such a man...or boy. He was 17 and had just arrived from Norway, and was conscripted into the Union army. He couldn't speak a word of English, and was soon killed - probably as cannon fodder. My Great Grandmother and Grandfather received the only notification of his death, a small package containing a couple of the items he had taken with him when he was forced to leave his new home in the US.

30 posted on 01/25/2020 5:38:18 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: Salamander

That was a great episode.


31 posted on 01/25/2020 6:16:32 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: Hyman Roth

Indeed it was.


32 posted on 01/25/2020 7:56:52 AM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: a fool in paradise
"That looks like a bottle of Old Crow"

Old Overholt "America's oldest continually maintained brand of whiskey."
33 posted on 01/25/2020 8:32:07 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: alexander_busek; TigersEye

LOL


34 posted on 01/25/2020 9:15:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Larry Lucido; Revel; Bob434

There’s some rumours going round, someone’s underground.


35 posted on 01/25/2020 9:49:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://wtvr.com/2020/01/22/witch-bottle-virginia/

(same information but with text instead of video)


36 posted on 01/25/2020 12:14:25 PM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Which bottle?

Always answer, "The full one please."

37 posted on 01/25/2020 12:37:42 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m seeing the plot of a direct-to-Netflix/Hulu movie in the making here........there are/were all sorts of legends, myths, ghost sightings, hauntings, and rumored cryptozoological weirdness from that region of the country back in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Haunted tunnels, apparitions, all that goosebumpy stuff we’d hear about as kids up there. Always made for good campfire stories right before you’d hit the sleeping bag for the night, and then some camp assistant or someone would run around in the woods an hour later, rattling tree branches, throwing pebbles, and scaring the general pizz out of everyone. LOL Fun times.


38 posted on 01/25/2020 2:49:25 PM PST by Viking2002 (Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: clearcarbon

I was thinking of the old crow holding it


39 posted on 01/25/2020 4:47:51 PM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"I was thinking of the old crow holding it"

Crone
40 posted on 01/25/2020 9:12:28 PM PST by clearcarbon
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