Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) caisson Vicksburg National Military Park and

Vicksburg National Military Park and author of Triumph and Defeat

Read compelling narratives of the women who found their hearts divided during the war

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This clash is detailed in A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) caisson Vicksburg National Military Park andThe 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