A Leg for A Leg Traditional Cache
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This cache is on the Mattaponi River in Aylett. After heavy rainfalls, the path to the cache can be fairly mucky, but otherwise, it's a fairly easy trek.
Summer hunting will prove a bit more difficult due to a higher muggle volume.
Not too far from this spot, the odd tale of a leg begins. In March of 1864, Col Ulrich Dahlgren led his Union troops into this area during the "Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid on Richmond", and, a little further down river from here, they were ambushed by Co. H of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, Lee's Rangers of King William County during which time, Dahlgren was killed. Other than the famous "Dahlgren Papers" describing an assassination attempt of Jefferson Davis, another item was taken to Richmond...Dahlgren's wooden leg. Lt. James Pollard took the papers and the leg to Richmond where the leg became famous. It was even at one time put on display in store-front window on Main Street. No too long afterward in June 1864, Lt. James Pollard himself was wounded and lost a leg, claiming Dahlgren's leg as a war prize and tried it for himself, but he was unsuccessful in getting the leg to fit. The leg was then sent to Confederate hospital in Charlottesville as a prototype and eventually it was used during the last 10 months of the war by Captain John N. Ballard of Mosby's Rangers, whom, apparently, it did fit.
Cache is a .30 cal. ammo can with the usual stuff and a set of un-activated travel bug tags for a FTF
Additional Hints
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