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Colin D. Standish Rapidan, Virginia...
...generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
Banished from the Army of the Potomac after this statement appeared in print with his picture of the retreat, Vizetelly switched not only his skill but his allegiance to the other side. Joining General Robert E. Lee's forces at the Rapidan in 1862, he thereafter produced the principal visual record of the Confederate campaigns, together with some strongly worded expressions on behalf of the Southern cause: "Surrounded as I am by the Southern people, I emphatically assert that the South can never be subjugated...
Once in overall command, Grant fleshed out this backbone of veterans with raw recruits, revamped whole regiments, brigades and corps, and then shoved the Army of the Potomac across the Rapidan toward Richmond. With Lee blocking it, the road to Richmond was a series of bloody detours. Never out of contact for more than a few hours in eleven months, Grant's men and Lee's men took bloody swipes at each other in the Wilderness, at Bloody Angle, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and the Crater. On the Union side, each of these actions was well conceived...
...lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...