Henry Patton was one of the servants that worked at the Meadows Plantation and who Lillian Booth was very close to as a child and even as an adult. Henry's father was mentioned by Lillian in Darkest Hour, as a Confederate Soldier who fought in the U.S. Civil War, because he believed that loyalty to his master was more important than his freedom. When Lillian was a child, she used to sit out with Henry on a log in front of the Meadow's Smoke House, while he carved her small rabbits and foxes. Once during a summer day when a storm was coming, Henry pointed over to an old oak tree bending against the wind and told Lillian what his mother told him; a branch that doesn't bend to the wind gets broken. He also told Lillian that she must always go with the wind, Lillian asked what would happen if