Sue Chancellor, for whose family a plantation
home and a major battle were named, was a girl of fourteen at the time of what
some term “Lee’s greatest triumph.” Before she became accustomed to seeing
Confederate pickets near her home, Sue later said, a large drove of sheep came
running down the road one day without a shepherd.
As she recalled the incident, that to her always
remained vivid, a soldier asked her if she’d like to have a pet. When she
nodded, Tomas Lamar Stark of Columbia, South Carolina, picked out for her “a
beautiful white lamb.” Named Lamar in honor of its donor, the lamb remained
with its new mistress until the Chancellor mansion was burned.
