Longstreet's famed artilleryman Colonel Edward Porter Alexander describes an encampment circa 20 July 1863 at a "very fine residence with great pillars on the front porch," just northeast of the village of Millwood, Virginia, whose owner was a short and thickset stutterer with short cropped red hair named Burwell. Around the same date, Henry Sneed of the 38th Virginia made flour for his regiment at a nearby mill. A month earlier, Turner Vaughan of the 4th Alabama was camped in the vicinity near a large spring on the "premises of a wealthy old gentleman" who kept white and spotted deer. A couple of days previous, on 20 June, J. B. Clifton of Phillips' Georgia Legion said he was entertained by a gentleman named Captain Nelson, and had boarded with a Mrs. Randolph in the village, and noted its only church was Episcopal. It appears that both Alexander and Vaughan were describing the grounds at Carter Hall, owned then by George Burwell (1799-1873). In 1862, Burwell had undergone a cataract operation at the hands of Dr. McGuire, Stonewall Jackson's physician, when Jackson had his headquarters on Burwell's property. Burwell was descended from Nathaniel Burwell, who partnered with Revolutionary War General Dan Morgan to build a grist mill using Hessian prisoners as labor - perhaps the very mill used circa 80 years later by Henry Sneed to help feed the 38th Virginia survivors of Pickett's charge. The surnames Nelson and Randolph are also closely associated with Millwood. Nathaniel Burwell's cousin, Edmund Randolph, served in Washington's cabinet and was a Virginia governor - he is buried at the Episcopal church, which happens to be one of the oldest Episcopal churches in continuous use in the region. Nathaniel Burwell left the nearby Long Branch estate to his older sister Sarah and her husband Phillip Nelson, son of Thomas Nelson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The threads binding the Civil and Revolutionary Wars are clearly evident in the village of Millwood. Incidentally, George Washington reportedly assisted in the original property survey for Carter Hall.