Margaret Junkin Preston, the “Poetess of the Confederacy,” is well known in Lexington, and beyond, for her epic poem “Beechenbook” and many other literary works, but her husband, John Thomas Lewis Preston, deserves at least as much historical interest, the newest “Rockbridge Epilogue” asserts.
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