industrious citizens. The consequence is that in
many counties a strong tide of immigration is setting in,
bearing with it improved stock and better implements, which
cannot fail to impart a healthy impulse to improvement."

[51] Moger, _Rebuilding_, p. 45. See remarks of Governor Henry Wise
in 1867 and A. H. H. Stuart in 1866, cited therein.

[52] W. Fullerton, _Address to Piedmont Agricultural Society_,
October 18, 1876. Speaking to the Society in 1867, William
Fullerton of New York chided Virginians by asserting that
"there is no other calling in life in which there is
manifested such an indifference to new discoveries, as is seen
among the tillers of the soil. If a mechanic or manufacturer
should in like manner fail to avail himself of improved
implements or machinery, he would be compelled to relinquish
his business. It is the farmer alone who resists anything new
appertaining to his calling. This arises mainly from a
deep-seated prejudice to what is called scientific or book
farming."

See also Moger, _Rebuilding_, p. 54, citing the fact that
farmers in the area of diversified agriculture, such as
Northern Virginia, had the highest number of agricultural
clubs, farm newspaper subscriptions, etc., of all areas in
Virginia.

[53] Main steps to assist agriculture taken by the state in the
1870's are summarized in Moger, _Rebuilding_, p. 54.

[54] Fairfax County Deed Book W-4, p. 271.

[55] J. S. Mosby, _Mosby's War Memoirs and Stuart's Cavalry
Campaigns_ (New York: Pageant Book Co., 1958), p. 10. Mosby
records in his memoirs that in Richmond, before being sent to
the Shenandoah Valley, the men were issued uniforms of very
rough quality from the state penitentiary. There was almost a
mutiny as the men piled them up in front of the captain's tent
and refused to wear them--all except Mosby and Beattie. Mosby
then states, "I do not think any clothes I ever wore did me
more service than these. When I became a commander, I made
Beattie a lieutenant."

This story is corroborated in Charles W. Russell (ed.), _The
Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby_ (Boston: Little Brown,
1917), p. 30.

[56] Beattie is mentioned frequently in histories of M