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much and had to buy his house Bel Air and its 21 acres.

His house is filled to the rafters with memorabilia from his 66 years of life. Part of it is Civil War museum and part is a rambling bar with dozens of decanters of liquor many of which are shaped like automobiles.

From his wife Pam’s office, he can look over the area where he was bom and grew up.

“I can see the house where I was raised, the high school where I went to high school, the church where I got married, and the courthouse where I got divorced. And I got a mausoleum up there at the cemetery.”

While LeHew may embellish some of what he says, he has documentary evidence to back much of it.

For example, Lucy Buck was a 19-year-old who lived in the house during the Civil War and was there to document the arrival of Robert E. Lee when the Army of Northern Virginia came to Front Royal on its retreat from Gettysburg.

“When General Lee returned from Gettysburg he drank buttermilk and rested at Bel Air, then the home of William M. Buck.” savs a Virginia state

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