Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tuart, on the lower Potomac. None on the place knewthat Lincoln had been assassinated, but about eight in theevening the doctor was summoned to attend a man whohad sprained his ankle. Later the man hobbled into thedining-room, using a boat oar for a crutch. Dr. Stuartdressed the limb hastily while Miss Skinner got food for thehalf-famished patient, the servants having deen dismissedfor the night. Within a fewhours the man met his deathand only then they learnedthat he was the assassin ofAbraham Lincoln. A very notable personalityof the Richmond war-time,a
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tuart, on the lower Potomac. None on the place knewthat Lincoln had been assassinated, but about eight in theevening the doctor was summoned to attend a man whohad sprained his ankle. Later the man hobbled into thedining-room, using a boat oar for a crutch. Dr. Stuartdressed the limb hastily while Miss Skinner got food for thehalf-famished patient, the servants having deen dismissedfor the night. Within a fewhours the man met his deathand only then they learnedthat he was the assassin ofAbraham Lincoln. A very notable personalityof the Richmond war-time,and later for many years onthe streets of Mobile, was thatof William Washington Augus-tin Spottswood, once sur-geon-general, C. S. high above averagemen, with muscular and vig-orous frame, he walked with mrs. t. tileston greenethe roll of the veteran sailor; ^^^ skinner)his long white beard bannered to the breeze. He wasarchetype of the days ere the men behind the gunschanged to the scientists in the conning tower. He was. 252 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF TBE SIXTIES in the eldest line of the fifth descent from that famedGovernor Spottswood, whose self and descendants are inter-woven in all the wars and policies of colonial, Revolutionaryand Rebel Virginia. The family was Saxon in originand the name was Spottiswode; and its blood is allied tothat flowing from the veins of Rolfe and his Indian princesswife. Today, its branches have rooted in every state thatVirginia has foster-mothered. In the early 40s Young Surgeon Spotswood wedded thebeautiful and much sought Miss Mary Eastin, daughter ofMr. Thomas Eastin of Mount Vernon, Ala. This was oneof the four weddings within as many years, that added tothe fame of the great and hospitable mansion on the Mobileriver; and it connected two famihes equally notable inVirginia and the Carolinas. The other weddings werethose of three of Mrs. Spotswoods sisters: Matilda to Cap-tain Alex. Montgomery, Lucinda Gayle to Dr. W. T. Ross
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