September and General Sheridan's march down the Shenandoah Valley. After the Civil War freed enslaved African Americans, the plantation economy collapsed. The Rogers led opposition to Reconstruction efforts and attempted to maintain both their economic and social status. Middleburg was able to secure its own charter as a town in 1872 as some prosperity returned, but the following year the Panic of 1873 struck. Reconstruction ended when President Rutherford B. Hayes took office in 1877. By 1880, Middleburg remained the county seat, but was no longer the second largest town in the county, but the third—and the decline continued until the century closed, when the old-line families still remembering the pre-Civil War prosperity began an uneasy alliance with former Northerners with equestrian interests. Both Rogers brothers had mortgages on their six large estates (Stone Hill, Mill Hill, Texas Farm, Oakham Farm, Dover, Ellendale, and Clifton), and Dover especially (owned by their brother William, who had been accused of fraud and self-dealing at the expense of the widow Hixon as early as the 1840s) was subject to lawsuits. They were all foreclosed upon in the mid-1870s, but family members were able to buy back three. Death and legacy Asa Rogers died in Middleburg, Virginia in 1887. He was buried in Middleburg's Sharon Cemetery. His wife Ellen'e letters are in the University of Virginia's special collection. Their daughter Lucy Lee Rogers (1833-1862) married the widowed rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Ovid Americus Kinsolving (1822-1894, whom Union forces imprisoned for treason), and two of their sons became Episcopal priests—Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving (1861-1961)(also known as an author and historian in Maryland) and Rev. Lucian Lee Kinsolving (1862-1929)--as did their half-brothers George Herbert Kinsolving (1849-1928) and Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878-1964). Notes 1802 births 1887 deaths People from Middleburg, Virginia