Westover

People June 3, 2013 August 28, 2016

Mrs. Byrd’s “Affair at Westover”

by Wayne Lynch

In traveling upriver on his raid to Richmond in early January 1781, General Benedict Arnold disembarked his army at Westover on the James River…

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