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Charles Broadway Rouss, 1836-1902
M. Buxbaum, 1895
Before the Civil War, Rouss established a business that became the largest commercial house in Winchester. After service in the 12th Virginia Infantry, he opened a dry goods store in New York City. Becoming a millionaire, he pledged $100,000 -- one-half of the total sum solicited -- for the construction of "The Battle Abbey of the South," a building that would memorialize the character of the South and her defenders. |