Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) quiz ten postwar presidents appointed former

ten postwar presidents appointed former Confederates to serve the reunited nation as Supreme Court justices

the revolutionary—not to say bizarre—Monitor slipped into harbor after hurrying down from New York through fierce gales that almost sank her

collectibles or part of civil war soldier costumes

111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments

Dunkelman recreates the fascinating story of 19th-century war

Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) quiz ten postwar presidents appointed formerHistoric Mary Thompson House Lee's Headquarters The elderly widow Mary Thompson co owned her small house west of Gettysburg on the Chambersburg Pike with Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, a staunch northern abolitionist, when the Battle of Gettysburg began the morning of July 1, 1863. Top commanding Confederate General Robert E. Lee was quick to make her house his headquarters upon realizing its strategic location overlooking the battlefield.