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property in 1817. Rives was succeeded as owner by two children: first Margaret Cabell Rives and then Alexander Rives, later rector of the University of Virginia.
Oak Ridge suffered no physical damage in the Civil War, but was left in adverse economic circumstances. In 1867 the property was purchased by West Virginia merchant Oliver Beime for his daughter and son-in-law William Porcher Miles.
Miles was a former U.S. and then Confederate congressman from Charleston, S.C. As chairman of the Confederate House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee, he was a key figure in the Southern war effort. He also designed the “Stars and Bars” Confederate battle flag.
Miles left the estate in 1880 to become the wealthiest sugar planter of Louisiana.
Oak Ridge was acquired in
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