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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
el service. I stopped for an hour to-day at a fine old mansion in the edge of Fauquier county, and, in company with some dozen officers, dined with a grand-daughter of Chief-Justice Marshall. A fine portrait of the eminent jurist and sage looked down upon us from the walls, and seemed as if speaking to us, in words of lofty patriotism, those lessons of wisdom and devotion to the country which were the marked attributes of his great character. In sight, from the south window, was "Oak Hill," where the roof of the old homestead in which he was born and reared is just concealed from view by a venerable growth of trees. Mrs. Jones, who is the mother of a very interesting family of nine children, talked reverently of her excellent grandfather, and evidently possessed something of the exalted love of country which glowed in his bosom. Her husband, she said, had steadily held out against the Southern movement until all his servants absconded, and then he said he would "go in.