Continued from May 16th.
The Washington Duke whose walk home Philip Brown was retracing, was indeed that Duke. The man who founded the huge tobacco company and the one who established Duke University. It was too much of a coincidence not to be.
From Wikipedia.
WASHINGTON DUKE (1820-1905)
American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist.
He served in the Confederate Navy from 1863 to 1865. (There is some confusion as to whether he was in the Confederate Navy or Army. Philip Brown called his sojourn "A Soldiers' Walk Home." This was very much against his will as he abhorred slavery. He once even bough a slave just so he could set her free
After the war, he grew tobacco on his farm, but sold it and moved to Durham, North Carolina and opened a tobacco business. In 1881 he established W. Duke Sons & Company.
--Old B-Runner
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