Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) grant becoming friends—and they emotionally parted

becoming friends—and they emotionally parted ways when the Civil War broke out

In Memory of Self and Comrades dramatizes Colley’s fate as a wounded soldier mustered out before the war’s conclusion

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Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) grant becoming friends—and they emotionally partedHistoric 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.