Word: rappahannock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried on the place at once." He turned to a small terrace bordering the garden beside the mansion. "Bury them here," he ordered. Eventually, the bodies of General Sheridan and Admiral David Dixon Porter, as well as 2,111 unknown soldiers from Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock River, were buried within a few yards of the mansion-on the theory that the Lees would never again live in a house surrounded by Union graves. They never did, although Robert E. Lee's son, George Washington Custis Lee, successfully sued for recovery of the estate after...
...women of this day & age have that same spirit." For the National Cartoonists Association, he debunked the old legend of George Washington's throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac. "It was a Spanish piece of eight," said Historian Truman, "and it was thrown across the Rappahannock . . . Any ten-year-old boy could throw a dime across at that place. But I am doubtful that Washington, with his acquisitive habits, would ever let loose of a Spanish piece of eight...