Old Virginia Blog

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. :)

: Name: Richard G. Williams, Jr.; Location: Shenandoah Valley, US

"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

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"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

30 March 2007

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Southern Festivals
This photo is one I took 2 years ago at Natural Chimneys in northwest Augusta County, Virginia. This is an annual bluegrass gospel event held every August and just one of the many great festivals held throughout the South.

Stonewall Jackson's famous mapmaker, Jedediah Hotchkiss, lived and taught school at Mossy Creek at the Loch Willow Academy for boys, just a few miles from where this photo was taken. Though born in New York, Hotchkiss became one of Jackson's most trusted

counsellors.

Hotchkiss died in 1899 and is buried in historic Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton, Virginia.

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