The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-11

river is WeoooNoi, 49, t;It
1923 by Sir John Foley and repulll
in 1887 by Col. William Byrd, near
Richmond, of which place he was
the founder. The traitor Benedlct
Arnold stopped at Westovcr on MS
wav to attack Richmond, and Corn
wallis troopers stabbed his horses IN
the lower rooms of the mansion.
During the war of 1876 Gen.
Pope occupied it as headquarters
( At one time it was owned by MAJ
| A, H. Drewry, of Drewry's Bluff.
the latter place famed for the tortl-
fcations that during the same ira
tricidal war made Of it the "Glbr&l-
tar of the Confederate capital" Ap,,
parentlv uninjured by wars ana
years, Westover still stands, ana on
the estate remains intact the cano
pied monument that shelters the
crave of "Will Byrd, Gentleman"
and the tomb of the beautiful NILS
tress Evelyn Byrd of romantic
memory.
Other manor houses of note on
the lower James are Berkeley, the
birthplace of eX-President William
Henry Harrison; Brandon. on eIe-
CANT colonial mansion, still IN the
hads of Harrisons, whose ancestors
were it's original owners. Stately
Curle's Neck, once Randolph hold
ing. Shirley, with history con-
nected with the names of Garter,
Fitzhugh, and Lee, this being the
birthplace of Anne Carter, who
married the Revolutionary general,
Light Horse Harry Lee and be-
came the mother of Robert E: Lee
The mansion, which dates back to
1912, is situated almost opposite TO
the mouth of AppomattoX RIVER
Not far up that famous little
stream Gen. Grants army met with
the disaster of the mime and the
"Crater." before Petersburg, on July
30. 1864. Thence, eight months Ia
ter, Anne Carriers great son and his
remnant of ragged, starving heroes
took up the line Of funeral march
to bury from sight, at AppomattoX
Court House, the overmatched cause
Of constitutional rights they had
fought and bled to keep alive
States rights persisted, and was not
permitted to have recognized part IN
the new national life that had birth
on April 9. 1865, lat AppomattoX.
It was buried, but "No man know
eth of its sepulchre unto this day"
On the James, also are the man
sions of Sherwood Forest, the resi-
dence of John Tyler, who was the
son of distinguished father and
the father of a distinguished son,
end was himself, distinguished as
the tenth President of the United
States: Claremont, an exact dupli-
cote of the building in England in
which Queen Victoria was born,
and with wealth of notable por-
traits of supreme interest. Lastly
w of those which there is here space
to mention is the famous homestead
of Malvern Hill, where the deadlock
between ninety thousand Federal
troops and fifty thousand Confeder-
ates on July /, 1862, closed Gen.
McClellan's famous peninsula cam
raign," and induced him to effect
that equally noted Change of base"
which has been so freely commented
uuon to his disadvantage. To be
wholly fair. was it not natural he
should need to breathe a bit after
the struggles of Williamsburg, Han
ever Court House. Seven Pines, Me-
Cold Harbor, the Seven
Days Fight, Savage Station, and
Frazier's Farm? However that may
he, there was little regret in Gen.
Lees army when Mcclellan aban-
Iored his base on the York River
and Quit his field of operations, so
Derilouslv near the Confederate cap
tal, on the James.