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Others, including “axemen,” drivers, wagoners, water carriers and cooks helped build forts around Richmond and along the Appomattox River, at Mulberry Island, near Newport News, and at Chaffin’s Bluff and Drewry’s Bluff.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2020

“We call them wagoners — everyone is jumping on the bandwagon,” Menzies said.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2019

George Black . . . started to make 'stogies' and cigars for the old wagoners and stagecoach drivers on the National pike about 1840.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambulance drivers are gruesome wagoners on the prowl for the sick and injured, whom they drag to hospitals for what amounts to a finder’s fee.

From Washington Post

“Everybody calls it the Cold Sassy tree. Back a hundred years ago it was a big sassafras grove there, and the wagoners goin’ through said that was the coldest spot between the mountains and Augusta.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns