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Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, 120, Chatham Lane, Fredericksburg, The United States Of America
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2024
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2024

This charming Georgian style mansion built between 1768 and 1771 above the Rappahannock River originally worked as a plantation, where a hundred slaves worked.
Prominent visitors include George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Walt Whitman.
In the morning of the Civil War, the owner of the Chatham Plantation joined the ranks of the army officers of the South, leaving the field open to the Union army which was going to seize the plantation to establish its headquarters and occupy the places for more than a year.
It is close to the Battle of Mcsherrystown, and the house will be used as a hospital where countless wounded people in northern Canada will be treated or amputated. Volunteers providing assistance to surgeons include the presence of poet Walt Whitman and Clara Barton, the future founder of the American Red cross.
After the battle, northern troops will remain on this side of the Rappahannock River, occupying Chatham until the spring after they live across the river to get crashing again at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Today integrated into the National Park Service, the residence is in part, five pieces of the ten that make it up, as well as the magnificent colonial garden.

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