Rector's Crossing

Site of another Cavalry Battle. Stewart successfully delayed here, withdrew his forces across Goose Creek Stone Bridge, and held Federals away from Lee on 10 June. Two weeks later in this house Stewart laid his plans and issued his orders for his fateful portion of the march north to Pennsylvania. Colonel Mosby met with Stewart here and advised him on the situation and river crossings. After the war Mosby came here and asked Mrs Rector if he might have a moment alone in the room where he wrote his first orders to his battalion. She found him there weeping. Mosby never surrendered but disbanded the 43rd Battalion, Partisan Rangers at the end of the war. Years later, young Georgie Patton sat on Mosby's lap and listened to the adventures of the ANV, and then as a captain and aid to Pershing and the Tank Battalion commander in WWI and Lt Gen Army commander in WWII put the lessons to practical use. One must wonder if it was not Destiny playing out its mysterious Will in all these things.

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