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His favourite route was the road leading to the Rockbridge Baths. A year previous to this time, he would sometimes go as far as the Baths and return in an afternoon, a trip of twenty miles. A part of this road led through a dense forest.
On one of his visits to my mother, he took advantage of the comparative quiet and rest there and wrote me a long letter, which I give her in full: "Rockbridge Baths, July 28, 1866. "My Dear Robert: I was very glad to see from your letter of the 2d the progress you are making in your farm.
Further west, there was a break in the ridge, which was occupied by a body of horse, the extreme right of the enemy's line. There was scarce time to mark these features before the head of my column appeared, when it was filed to the left, close to the base of the ridge, for protection from the plunging fire. Meanwhile, the Rockbridge battery held on manfully and engaged the enemy's attention.
At Lexington, in the county of Rockbridge, a hundred miles west of Richmond, stand the castellated buildings and the wide parade ground which formed the nursery of so many Confederate soldiers. To the east rise the lofty masses of the Blue Ridge.
One of the women nursed a baby; they all looked down like wraiths upon the passing soldiers. Firing broke out ahead. "Newtown," said the men beside Steve. "I've got friends there. Told 'em when we came up the Valley after Kernstown we'd come down again! 'N here we are, bigger 'n life and twice as natural! That's Rockbridge making that awful noise. Must be a Yankee battery There it opens!
Custis, who was to have accompanied me, will go down in a day or two.... "About the 20th of this month I shall go to the Rockbridge Baths with Mrs. Lee, who wishes to try the waters again, and after seeing her comfortably located, if nothing prevents, I shall go with Mildred and Agnes to the White Sulphur for a few weeks.... It is delightfully quiet here now.
I inclose a note from your mother, transmitted on the supposition that I would write to you. Professor White is with me and I have some few acquaintances, but I am anxious to return. I am glad that Bertus has had a short visit to the Orange. He says that he will come to Rockbridge in September. Custis will be there by the first, and we shall all, I hope, be together again. "Affectionately,
D. D. Magruder, of Frederick County, Virginia. Littleton Macon, of Albemarle County, whose utterances became proverbial. Frank Meade and Frank Nelson, of Albemarle County. W. C. Gordon, of Lexington, Virginia. Jefferson Ruffin, of Henrico. J. M. Shoulder, of Rockbridge. W. C. Stuart, of Lexington, Virginia. Stevens M. Taylor, of Albemarle County, Virginia.
That's a nice little what d'ye call it? they've planted there " "Avalanche," panted Steve. "O Gawd!" A minie ball had pierced the other's brain. He fell without a sound, and Steve went on. The troops entered the hamlet at a run, passing two of the Rockbridge guns planted on a hillock and hurling shell against a Federal battery at the far end of the street.
Chapman Maupin, of Charlottesville, son of Professor Maupin, of the University of Virginia, served during part of the campaign of 1862, was with the battery in several battles, and enlisted afterward in the Signal Corps. That so many intelligent and educated men from outside of Rockbridge were attracted to this company was primarily due to the fact that the Rev.
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