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Kirsten Lee, a descendant of one of the three sons of Colonel Adam Dandridge, with dog "Jeb Stuart" and a Sweeney Banjo at "The Bower," Jefferson County, WV.

Photo by John S. Peterson, musician and the author of "Horse Soldier banjo: Riding a Raid to Antietam and the Dandridge Bower" for NORTH & SOUTH, April, 2007, Vol 10, No. 1.

"The Bower" is the ancestral family home of the Dandridge family, and was where Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and several hundred of his cavalry camped and entertained in September-October, 1862.