Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) equiptment General Grant and the Rewriting

General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S

Fido had been by Lincoln’s side as the prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to the presidency

and industry and infrastructure were crumbling

and then someone from Abigail's past surfaced there

During the Battle of Gettysburg

Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) equiptment General Grant and the RewritingThe 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