Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) caisson Confederate Gray

Confederate Gray

who have already conquered Western Europe

and Must be Taken” is a sequel to Thomas Ryan’s Spies

a companion Western Theater study entitled Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga

Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) caisson Confederate GrayThe 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