Trip out to Lynchburg to visit Historic Sandusky. Home built in 1808 that was used as a Union Headquarters during the Battle of Lynchburg. / va_travels / vatravels
Welcome to Lynchburg. Had I known you were coming, I would have met you with a Brandy toast. The painting of the flag draped coffin on the packet boat Marshall depicts Stonewall Jackson's body as it begins it river journey from Lynchburg to Lexington. The body had arrived in Lynchburg via train from Richmond and is buried in Lexington. Thanks for sharing.
The white rain gutters on the Sandusky house, though probably necessary, seem historically wrong and visually disturbing. Seeing the medical instruments in the museum makes you realize how perilous it was to be seriously wounded in the Civil War. And now Lynchburg is so tranquil...