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On May 2, 1863, the long gray columns of Jackson's Corps crossed the shallow ford here hour by hour, splashing through water that was not stone-paved then and turning the crossing into a mud hole. Before this branch of Poplar Run ran clear again on its course toward the distant York, "Stonewall" Jackson and hundreds of his marchers were to fall dead or wounded, and many would never cross another earthly stream.
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