Chatham Manor
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Chatham's history goes back to pre-Revolutionary times (it was built in 1768, and George Washington slept here), but all other associations are overshadowed by its Civil War period. It stands on a bluff commanding the head of navigation of the Rappahannock River and the City of Fredericksburg. During various campaigns around that city it served as the headquarters of at least five Union generals, and President Abraham Lincoln visited the house. It served as a hospital in which the wounded were tended by Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Walt Whitman and physician Mary Walker, the only woman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War. Federal troops trashed the place pitifully, ripping out the paneling for firewood, riding their horses through the mansion and carrying off anything movable.
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