Over the telephone, a person in another state told me of their dream of a large Confederate soldier with a cap and mustache, in silhouette, that appeared in Hollywood Cemetery and beckoned them to follow. They followed and the Confederate soldier pointed to two graves without speaking.

A week later I was at Hollywood, on the hillside at Sallie Partington's site, I turned and looked down at the roadway below. Now you see the same gentleman with the Confederate cap and mustache as in the dream a week earlier.

This story is true.

James River viewed from Hollywood Cemetery

September 24, 2002.

Thomas Meldrum Rutherfoord

"Good night, sweet prince..."

Markers of Confederate soldiers at Hollywood Cemetery

A rose in remembrance...