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Civil War
reenactor
to appear
June 2,3
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Forty years ago, at the Civil War Centennial of 1961, Ripley Robinson began his hobby as a Civil War reenactor. “I joined as a private in Company K of the 17th Virginia and worked my way up,” the courtly Virginia gentleman commented.
Way up, indeed. Now nearly 81 years old, Mr. Robinson portrays a true Confederate legend, Major General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. For 25 years, he has worn the general’s uniform and sword of the famous Stonewall, making countless appearances at battle re-enactments, Civil War ceremonies and talks to classes of school children.
Mr. Robinson’s General Jackson will preside over the re-enactor activities of Sperryville Civil War Days, Saturday and Sunday. He plans to pitch his general’s tent on the grounds of the Old Sperryville Bookshop, where he will spin his Civil War tales and greet visitors. “I portray General Jackson because I look something like him,” he said.
“When I started growing a beard in 1975, the men said I looked like Jackson and thought I ought to portray him.”
The Midland resident is a descendant of a long line of Confederate veterans, including his great grandfather, Henry Hancock Lee V, a distant cousin of General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. He has an endless supply of Civil War stories and possesses some precious family heirlooms of the era, including weapons, a spur of Confederate General John Logan, and silver spoons of the Lee family •that were hidden in a well to keep .them from Yankee soldiers.
Stop by this weekend and meet a legendary re-enactor playing a legendary general.
Just be sure to salute.
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