Just when you were musing about the nature of coincidences, along comes Martin Fone to explain exactly what they are — and what they aren’t.
Wilmer McLean’s two properties served as bookends to the American Civil War. The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle, was fought out on his plantation near Manassas in Virginia. His land ruined, he moved, in 1863, some 120 miles to the quiet backwater of Appomattox Court House. Any thoughts of escaping the war…
