...rt was known as Canaan. The most famous of the horses in the stables of General Lee, the Confederate commander, was Traveller, an iron gray horse. He was raised in Greenbrier County, near Blue Sulphur Springs , and, as a colt, won first prize at a fair in Lewisburg, Virginia. When hostilities commenced between the North and the South, the horse, then known as Jeff Davis, was owned by Major Thomas L. Bro...