Battlefield Journal: Lee's Rock at Monterey Pass

Driving by it, one may never know that a series of rocks along the Old Waynesboro Road once was host to General Robert E. Lee. This story was told to me by an elderly man, Mr Warner, who was 12 years old when he heard it from Dorctor Bridgers.

Mr. Warner grew up around Walter Taylor's children in the 1930's and 1940's. but the story goes, that Walter Taylor III, took Dr. Bridgers out and about and took him to a series of rocks. He then explained that his father Lee's Aid-de-Camp told him that he and Lee rested on this rock and watched the infantry columns of the Confederate army marching by.After a brief stay, Lee mounted his horse and proceeded down South Mountain into Pikesville.

The rock today has been dubbed the "Lee Rock" and is located a short distance from where the Appalachian Trail crosses modern day Old Waynesboro Road up against a telephone pole.

Read the complete article: Lee's Famous Staff Officer Walter Taylor Jr.