If you had been standing here at dawn on November 27, 1863, you would have seen Col. John S. Mosby and his partisan rangers herding a string of mules bearing dejected-looking Union prisoners. Among the captives was Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden, 40th Ne…
John Jackson, Piedmont guitar master and influential traditional musician, was born near here on25 Feb. 1924. One of fourteen children of tenantfarmers Suddy and Hattie Jackson, Jackson learnedsongs on the guitar and banjo from his parents,traveli…