The engraved cup was presented by the unit's commander, then Col. Testimony to her qualities as a gracious southern hostess even in war time is a silver loving cup that members of the Confederate's Mecklenburg Calvary presented Maria Curtis after they had camped out at the End View plantation. The Roche operated from a wharf owned by Curtis' grandparents at Lands End plantation, where the James and the Warwick rivers came together. Roche, which was sunk in the James River to hamper Union warships. Her grand piano was stolen by Union troops during the war, but she eventually got another piano that she used to entertain the Confederate soldiers andlater the soldiers of World War I.īefore the war, tobacco and other crops were raised at End View and shipped to England via the schooner John W. Several other members also stayed behind because their homes and families were threatened.'' The grandchildren also remember that their grandmother Maria Curtis was an accomplished musician. ''When the company began moving away from the Peninsula, he returned to his medical practice. Although my grandfather started the unit, he got out of it in May 1882,'' says grandson Prentis Smith, a retired postal worker. ''The Warwick Beauregards became a part of Company H, 32nd Virginia Infantry and was mustered into service on May 27, 1861.
Armistead of Williamsburg saved some of my Grandmother Curtis' wedding furniture from destruction by the Union soldiers by sending a wagon down to the plantation.'' Among the items that were saved were a mahogany-and-cherry bed and dresser, which are cherished today in the Bentien household.
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