WBTS & historical musings, wandering thoughts, book comments, and an occasional rant from the backroads and byways of Old Virginia from Civil War author Richard G. Williams, Jr - one of the few remaining men who has actually lived in Virginia all his life. :)
"From Virginia sprung the Southern Mind, a mind which favoured the local community, Burkean conservatism, the folkways of ancestors, an unwavering orthodox Christian faith." ~ Alphonse Vinh
"It was this love of home, with its thronging recollections of the past both near and far . . . that nerved many a Southern soldier. . . . Love of the South was inextricably mixed up with this love of the family hearth. . . . Love of one particular spot, of one neighborhood, of one State, was the foundation stone of the love of the entire region which entered so deeply into the spirit of the Confederate soldier." ~ Philip Alexander Bruce
This map of my home county, and where I've lived all my life, was published in 1867 by Stonewall Jackson's mapmaker, Jedediah Hotchkiss. When Robert E. Lee died in October of 1870, it was the only image that hung on the wall of Lee's office in the basement of Lee Chapel in Lexington. It hangs there today, just as General Lee left it. Click on the link above for the history of the Scots-Irish capital of America.
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