Winchester is the seat of Scott County. A tiny community of less than 2,000 residents, it nonetheless has some claim to fame. Stephen A. Douglas, future U.S. senator and 1860 presidential candidate of ...

Drew Gilpin Faust: Mary Lee of Winchester ... South before the Civil War, become very Southern [and fought] with the Confederacy -- so he was a bona fide Southerner -- but then joins the ...