Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) quiz S/L# 31627

S/L# 31627

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111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments

Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) quiz S/L# 31627Historic 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.