Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) scale In the end

In the end

"Rally them Blackford" by Francis Barnum depicts JEB Stuart and Blackford prior to arriving in Gettysburg

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but the many rivers and obstacles his Third Army encountered crossing Europe required engineers spearheading his advance

even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War

Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) scale In the endThe widow Lydia Leister bought her small 9 acre Taneytown Road farm just south of Gettysburg in 1861. Her hard work quickly made the farm self sufficient. At the outbreak of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 3, 1863, commanding Union Army General George Gordon Meade commandeered the farm to serve as his headquarters due to its centrally located position. Following the Battle of Gettysburg Lydia returned home to find her small house damaged from