. The Tiernan and other families. to theSouth, at a large dinner where everyone was a Colonel,or Captain, or Judge, some one asked him what he he had been for a short time on the stall of aGeneral at Norfolk, during the war of 1812, he replied,that he did not wish to accept an inferior rank, so theymight call him General, and C. B. Tiernan has a num-ber of letters from that section, addressed to him asGeneral Bernard. General Dabney Herndon Maury, in his workcalled Recollections of a Virginian, p. 254, says : It was once my delightful privilege to pass theChristmas holidays with J
. The Tiernan and other families. to theSouth, at a large dinner where everyone was a Colonel,or Captain, or Judge, some one asked him what he he had been for a short time on the stall of aGeneral at Norfolk, during the war of 1812, he replied,that he did not wish to accept an inferior rank, so theymight call him General, and C. B. Tiernan has a num-ber of letters from that section, addressed to him asGeneral Bernard. General Dabney Herndon Maury, in his workcalled Recollections of a Virginian, p. 254, says : It was once my delightful privilege to pass theChristmas holidays with Judge Butler and a companyof bright ladies and gentlemen, old and young, atHazelwood, that old Virginia home of the Taylors ofCaroline. * * * We had a dinner party every day, and every nighthad its delightful close in a dance at Gay Mont, PortRoyal, or Hazelwood. The house, big as it was, hadno vacant beds, or empty places at the table, and weyoung people greatly enjoyed the old people. I remember a dinner of twenty or more seats,. Mes. Jane Gay Bernard. JOH:sr H BERNARD. 381 When we young men and maidens listened with delight tothe witty and wise conversation, sustained by JudgeButler, William P. Taylor, of Ifayfield. and John Ber-nard of Gay Mont. We young folks ceased our merry•chat and listened with rapt attention to the wisdom and?wit, and charming narratives and wise discussions ofthis cultured trio of refined gentlemen of the old school. In a long experience I can recall nothing so ele-gant as was that Christmas week, His wife, Jane Gay Robertson, bom July 1,1795 ; died July 19, 1852; was the daughter of WilliamRobertson and Elizabeth Bollinsr, It was desired to have given a few of Mrs. Ber-nards letters, but it was thought best not to do so, asthey were of a personal nature, and it was difficult tomake a selection among them, and this work has ex-tended far beyond what was originally anticipated. Their children were: Gay Robertson, hereinbefore mentioned. Mary Eliza, w
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