Friday, July 17th, 2009 | Author:

This is the home where Whitman found his brother George in December 1862 in the makeshift Union hospital, and spent a week visiting with soldiers before traveling to DC to begin his serious work as a spiritual missionary to the wounded.  This image and the one below of Marye House (Brompton) are courtesy of a digital archive from UMW’s Historic Preservation Department.

http://departments.umw.edu/hipr/www/Fredericksburg/pics/04a39572.jpg

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