Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) grant Brass Spikes and Horsetail Plumes

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and Benjamin Franklin

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becoming friends—and they emotionally parted ways when the Civil War broke out

and African Americans themselves

Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) grant Brass Spikes and Horsetail PlumesHistoric 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.