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The first residents of the institution were Amos Humiston's widow Philinda and her three children: Franklin
who gives us a personal view of what the battlefield and its surrounding community have come to mean to him
Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before
Caroline E
Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) Section-Letters/memoirs The first residents of theHistoric 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.
