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it. Ihe blossoms, together with the tropical plants in large tubs,
were very attractive. We refugeed the winter of 1862, and when
the family returned the flowers were all dead and the glass broken.
Since then it has been turned into the dining-room.
The flower garden was and is on the left front of the house,
with two little, gnarled arbor vitae trees still keeping watch as they
have for generations past.
General Lee, in June, 1863, on his march to Gettysburg, camped
at the edge of the woods which stretch to the county road about
a quarter of a mile away, and General Stonewall Jackson, before
this time, in October, 1862, had made his camp in the glen.
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