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According to Virginia Morton, author of “Marching Through Culpeper,” former Confederate scout Frank Stringfellow died of a heart attack at age 73. See photos of grave…

Rev. Frank Stringfellow had led a life full of love and service to God. He could ask for no more, yet there was a dream hidden in his heart for one more blessing. His life had been spiritually rich, but the salary of a minister does provide material wealth. Wealth itself was not his goal, but the opportunity to visit the Holy Land was his most cherished dream. He wanted to walk where his Lord and Savior had walked, to see the sites where Christ had preached, and to absorb the power of those Holy shrines.

His lovely daughters had married well. Two of his daughters and their husbands gave Frank and Emma their dream cruise. In 1907, they joined a tour of ministers to Europe and the Holy Land. This life-changing journey in his sixty-seventh year rejuvenated Rev. Stringfellow’s energy to preach and be a faithful servant of the Lord. He wrote to one of his daughters, “How much of the good done to me can I transmit to others? I have had a great spiritual uplift, with it comes increased responsibility. I hope the light within me may never be put under a bushel, but be put upon the candle stand.”

And for the next six years he let his light shine brightly. Rev. Stringfellow’s philosophy of life can best be summarized in a letter he wrote his grown daughter encouraging her never to complain, “Serve God and your generation with an unselfish spirit, and the same sun which rose often on you in splendor may follow you in life, and come down in a blaze of glory. We can only do our part faithfully, and the thing which befalls us will be the best thing for us in the two lives which we must all live, the here and the hereafter.”*
Rev. Frank Stringfellow had led a life full of love and service to God. He could ask for no more, yet there was a dream hidden in his heart for one more blessing. His life had been spiritually rich, but the salary of a minister does provide material wealth. Wealth itself was not his goal, but the opportunity to visit the Holy Land was his most cherished dream. He wanted to walk where his Lord and Savior had walked, to see the sites where Christ had preached, and to absorb the power of those Holy shrines.

His lovely daughters had married well. Two of his daughters and their husbands gave Frank and Emma their dream cruise. In 1907, they joined a tour of ministers to Europe and the Holy Land. This life-changing journey in his sixty-seventh year rejuvenated Rev. Stringfellow’s energy to preach and be a faithful servant of the Lord. He wrote to one of his daughters, “How much of the good done to me can I transmit to others? I have had a great spiritual uplift, with it comes increased responsibility. I hope the light within me may never be put under a bushel, but be put upon the candle stand.”

And for the next six years he let his light shine brightly. Rev. Stringfellow’s philosophy of life can best be summarized in a letter he wrote his grown daughter encouraging her never to complain, “Serve God and your generation with an unselfish spirit, and the same sun which rose often on you in splendor may follow you in life, and come down in a blaze of glory. We can only do our part faithfully, and the thing which befalls us will be the best thing for us in the two lives which we must all live, the here and the hereafter.”*
According to Virginia Morton, author of “Marching Through Culpeper,” visiting the Holy Land was Rev. Frank Stringfellow’s cherished dream. His grown daughters and their spouses made that dream a reality in 1907.

Former Confederate spy Rev. Frank Stringfellow continued to employ his legendary ingenuity and sense of humor to the challenges he faced as a minister. But there is no better example than his achievements as a rainmaker in Boydton, Va.

Ex Confederate scout Frank Stringfellow had another trick up his sleeve to garner permission to be a chaplain in the Spanish-American war.

According to Virginia Morton, author of “Marching Through Culpeper,” former Confederate scout Frank Stringfellow became an Episcopal minister at age 36 and used his ingenuity and speaking engagements of his wartime adventures to raise money to build churches across Virginia.

According to Virginia Morton, author of “Marching Through Culpeper,” Confederate scout Frank Stringfellow arrived in Hamilton, Canada in March, 1866 where he joined many ex-Confederates in search of a new life…

After the incriminating letter was discovered in the lining of Stringfellow’s coat, his guard– a sergeant, informed him that he would be taken to Washington the next day along with a group of deserters and blockade runners. Stringfellow persuaded the sergeant to take him down to the river that evening. There, in the darkness, the scout related how he had refused to kill the sergeant with an ax when he had the opportunity, and the internal struggle he had faced.
The sergeant was touched by the story and wished he had …

Following his brave but foolhardy toast to Jefferson Davis in a Washington boarding house, Frank Stringfellow headed into Eastern Maryland. He posed as a dentist but sensed that the net of intrigue was about to snare him. Thus he rented a carriage and headed southward towards the Potomac River to return to Virginia. 
The carriage came to a sudden stop and Stringfellow looked out the windows to see a Union soldier holding the reins of the horse and two others poked carbines through the windows into the scout’s face. He indignantly …

Stringfellow’s reputation for courage and reliability reached the upper echelons of the Confederacy. Following Jeb Stuart’s death, the scout reported directly to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Davis personally ordered Stringfellow into the Federal capital in March of 1865 to determine the climate for peace negotiations.
Many years after the war, Davis requested information for his memoirs and Stringfellow sent a report of his final mission. While gathering intelligence, the infatuated spy had risked his life to court Emma Green. He wrote, “Dark and dangerous as these days were they …