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Reminiscences of Peace and War

Chapter 4: Illustrations
By Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
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A personal memoir recounts Washington social life in the 1850s and the transformation of Virginia society during the Civil War, combining drawing-room detail with eyewitness political and military observations. The narrator describes receptions, White House and congressional scenes, and the rupture of social relations as secession unfolds, then follows local responses: recruitment, camp and regimental life, plantation routines, and battlefield engagements and sieges. Interwoven reflections on manners, the role of women, domestic sorrow, and the landscape of estates and forts produce a textured portrait of a community reshaped by conflict and memory.

Illustrations

General Robert E. Lee on "Traveller." From a photograph by Miley, Lexington, Va. Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Appomattox, Residence of the Eppes Family. This estate at City Point on James River has been in the Eppes family since it was first patented, through a grant from Charles First to Colonel Francis Eppes in 1635 136
Westover. Owned in 1619 by Henry West, fourth Lord Delaware 140
Lower Brandon. The estate of "Brandon" (since divided) was patented in 1617 by Captain John Martin. In 1720 it was conveyed to Nathaniel Harrison, and has remained ever since in the possession of the Harrison family 144
The Oaks 148
Malvern Hill. Named after the hills that divide the counties of Hereford and Worcester. Here one of the most sanguinary conflicts of the war took place. The old dwelling-house, a fine specimen of colonial architecture, is still standing 188
Hon. Roger A. Pryor. From a photograph, about 1870 218
Siege Map of Petersburg. Drawn by Federal engineers, and used by the Union Army throughout the last year of the war 350
Old Blandford Church, Petersburg, Va. Built in 1734. From a photograph taken since the roof was renewed; it was not roofed in 1867 408

The author desires to acknowledge her indebtedness to President Lyon G. Tyler of William and Mary College for information regarding the colonial homes on James River. The pictures of Appomattox, Lower Brandon, and Malvern Hill are from photographs by Mr. H. P. Cook of Richmond, Va.