Paul Mitchell of Midlothian, at right, appeared as the Rev. Frank Stringfellow for a talk last Thursday at Kingston Parish House, Mathews. He is shown with the Rev. Gary Barker, rector of Kingston Parish, and Reed Lawson, president of the Mathews County Historical Society, which co-sponsored the appearance with the parish. Mitchell talked about Stringfellow and the Rev. Giles B. Cooke, and what these men had in common: both were Confederate Army veterans, became Episcopal ministers after the Civil War, started schools for the newly- and recently-freed slaves and their children, served Kingston Parish as rectors, and left written records of their war experiences....