Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) ink and his very human reactions

and his very human reactions

Midnight in America: Darkness

takes a last smoke of his pipe

The first major reinterpretation of the Democratic Party's internal schism in more than a generation

the charismatic leader who held his army together to achieve an unlikely victory

Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) ink and his very human reactionsHistoric 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.