Photos of homes on Civil War travels

[Jim Klag]

When visiting the various Civil War sites around the country, I like to take pictures of the homes on or near battlefields, whether they are grand estates or plain frame houses/cabins. Here is Belle Grove plantation on the Cedar Creek battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley.

 

[Jim Klag]

Jimklag said:
When visiting the various Civil War sites around the country, I like to take pictures of the homes on or near battlefields, whether they are grand estates or plain frame houses/cabins. Here is Belle Grove plantation on the Cedar Creek battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Please feel free to share your photos of homes you have encountered in your Civil War travels. Try to keep to just one or two photos per post. But post as many times as you want.

Another home I came across is the Bushong House on the Newmarket battlefield.

 

[Jim Klag]

Jimklag said:
Another home I came across is the Bushong House on the Newmarket battlefield.
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Another is the Hillsman House at the Sayler's Creek battlefield.

 

[Jim Klag]

FarawayFriend said:
Here are two of the Fredericksburg battlefield.

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The Innis House

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Brompton (formerly known as Marye's House)

I'm guessing most of us have this one from Springfield, IL

This photo is from the NPS. It's better than the one I took. All others are taken by me.Click to expand...

 

[Jim Klag]

Jimklag said:
I'm guessing most of us have this one from Springfield, IL
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This photo is from the NPS. It's better than the one I took. All others are taken by me.

The Trent house where McClellan pitched his headquarters tents during the Seven Days battles.

 

[Jim Klag]

The presidential homes near Charlottesville, VA

Jefferson's Monticello

 

[Jim Klag]

Jimklag said:
The presidential homes near Charlottesville, VA

Jefferson's Monticello
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James Monroe's Ash Lawn - Highland

Lee's headquarters at Gettysburg before the restoration. Does anyone have an up to date photo?

 

[Jim Klag]

More presidential homes.

Mount Vernon

 

[Jim Klag]

A better photo of Montpelier.

Lee's quarters at Fortress Monroe when he was a young engineer.

McLean house at Appomattox.

 

[Jim Klag]

Stone House at Manassas. Matthews hill in the background

 

[Jim Klag]

Ellwood, the Lacy house near the Wilderness/Chancellorsville battlefield. Stonewall Jackon's amputated arm was buried on the grounds here.

 

[Jim Klag]

donna said:
These photos are excellent. Just really enjoy old homes. Been to almost all of these.

Faraway Friend Tryon Palace is beautiful. We (my husband and I) were there several years ago.

I'm hoping to get lots of contributions from all our shutterbugs. I'd like to get more of the Gettysburg homes from @Gettysburg Greg , @pamc153PA , et al. I have no pictures of the Rose farmhouse at all and my photos of the widow Leister's are old and crummy.

 

[Jim Klag]

The office at the Chandler plantation near Guinea Station, VA where Stonewall Jackson breathed his last breath.


Stonewall's death bed.

 

[Jim Klag]

Not exactly original. A replica soldier's cabin at Petersburg.

 

[Jim Klag]

PeterT said:
The Trostle farmhouse near Gettysburg

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Here's the Trostle barn to go with the house.The Trostle farmhouse near Gettysburg

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[jgoodguy]

Different views of presidential homes.

Rear view of Monroe' s Ash Lawn


Front portico of Mount Vernon.

https://www.jggscivilwartalk.online/index.php?threads/259/

 

[Jim Klag]

FarawayFriend said:
@ami, I think I will soon start a thread about Arlington, because we should not forget that Arlington was the home of Mary Custis Lee and the Lee family probably spent their happiest years there before the war. I'm afraid though, there might already be a thread about Arlington, the home ...
But if not ... I made some nice photos last year and will post them. Maybe I'll post them anyway
I just hope others will chime in and post their Arlington photos, too!

Great idea. I have a number of Monticello photos too, though they have little relationship to the Civil War.@ami, I think I will soon start a thread about Arlington, because we should not forget that Arlington was the home of Mary Custis Lee and the Lee family probably spent their happiest years there before the war. I'm afraid though, there might already be a thread about Arlington, the home ...
But if not ... I made some nice photos last year and will post them. Maybe I'll post them anyway
I just hope others will chime in and post their Arlington photos, too!

 

[Jim Klag]

FarawayFriend said:
Here are two from Winchester:
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If you think it looks familiar, you might remember this Mort Kunstler painting:
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... and then of course Jackson's winter quarters:


Slightly different, with artistic licence, or maybe as seen from the other side:

Love the Winchester pictures with corresponding artwork.

 

[Jim Klag]

Some more photos of the McLean house at Appomattox. The first two are interior shots.

1. Lee sat here for the surrender meeting.


2. Grant sat here

 

[Jim Klag]

James N. said:
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The recently-restored ca. 1856 Schluter House, only one of literally dozens of both antebellum and post-bellum homes in Jefferson, Texas, featured in my thread: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/jefferson-album-texas-civil-war-town.119905/

Excellent, James. I have no photos of Texas homes. Please keep 'em coming. Schluter house is beautiful.