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In none of the other Southern States did so many Mennonites live as in Virginia, and by far the greater number of them lived in the Shenandoah Valley. The soil is fertile and many of the farmers were quite prosperous. Both armies looked toward this valley for part of their supplies and in order that the South could not get any more from here the Federals decided to destroy all the food in sight in the valley. Another quotation from Bro. Heatwole express it very graphically: Then to cap the climax, there came the never-to-be-forgotten Sheridan's Raid.... From the evening of October 6th, to the morning of the 8th nearly all the barns and mills. .. .were set on fire in that part of Rockingham county where the Mennonites were located."