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1924.
Charlie Dear, whose family owned Washington House, was IS years old at the start of the Civil War. Like his fellow Raider "Bob Ridely", he was a big man who required a big horse. In the most famous exploit of his military career. Dear lead a platoon which captured a federal paymaster by wrecking a Union train near the town of Marshall and escaped with $165,000 in spoils.
After the war, he returned to Washington to manage Washington House at a time when the town was quite a summer resort for the city people who came out from Washington, D.C., and Baltimore to take the mountain air.
Mary Edna Walker, who now lives in the former ordinary and boarding house, recalled a local legend about Charlie Dear's expertise with a knife. While the master of Washington House, the former rider with Mosby at the head of the long dining room table and carved the ham for supper.
Dear didn’t need a boarding house reach to serve the meats. "He'd slice it and then flip it with his knife all the way down to the other end onto each and every plate. Supposedly, he never missed a one.”
Mrs. Walker also remembered a story about a visitor who once had the audacity to describe Mosby’s Raiders as a bunch of cut throats. Charlie Dear is supposed to have grabbed his famous blade from off the meat platter and held it to the gentleman's throat. “Charlie said ‘Please take that back!' and the man did,” Mrs. Walker reported.
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