Marshall House-George Marshall's residence, Leesburg
The Marshall House (formerly Dodona Manor) is a National Historic Landmark in Leesburg, Virginia. It is owned by the George C. Marshall International Center, which has restored the property to its Marshall-era appearance of the 1950s. The Marshall Center has close ties with the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia, where the George C. Marshall Library houses Marshall’s papers
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Words of four great men for this great man, George Marshall.Capture Date: Jun 15, 2014 10:13 AM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Marshall House
George Catlett Marshall, who was Army Chief of Staff in World War II, special envoy to China, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and namesake of the Marshall Plan, and his wife Katherine Marshall purchased the property for $16,000 in 1941 and lived there until his death in 1959. Except for a winter home in Pinehurst, N.C., the house was the only home Marshall ever owned, and was the backdrop to quiet conversations and contemplations of international importance. Katherine gave the house and 3.88 acres to her daughter, Molly Winn, in 1960. When Mrs. Winn expressed her desire to sell the property in the early 1990s, several prominent Leesburg citizens under the leadership of B. Powell Harrison were concerned that the property might fall into commercial hands and urged the Town of Leesburg to purchase it. That proved to be impossible, so the citizens formed the George C. Marshall Home Preservation Fund, later the George C. Marshall International Center, and purchased the Marshall House for $2.3 million.
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The gardens-The Marshall House
The grounds have been restored to their Marshall-era appearance and include a large vegetable garden that was restorative as an antidote to the pressures Marshall felt as Chief of Staff. Katherine delighted in growing roses, and a restored rose garden features the types of roses she cultivated, including the "K.T. Marshall Rose."
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The Marshall House
The Marshall House is unique among historic houses because most of the furnishings and memorabilia in the house were owned and used by the Marshalls and were obtained from Mrs. Marshall’s heirs. Among the items are originals or reproductions of art given to the Marshalls, including a reproduction of View of Tinherir, painted by Sir Winston Churchill in Morocco in 1951 and given to the Marshalls in 1953. Another reproduction is Evening, by Russian artist Vassily Baksheyev. The original was a gift to Marshall from Vyacheslav Molotov, foreign minister of the Soviet Union, in 1947 in appreciation for Marshall’s efforts in World War II.
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St Jon the Apostle Catholic Church, LeesburgCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 10:52 AM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, LeesburgCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 10:54 AM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Many men died on this field- The Battle of Ball's Bluff was fought here during the Civil War in 1861
The Battle of Ball's Bluff in Loudoun County, Virginia on October 21, 1861, was one of the early battles of the American Civil War, in which Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac (Union) suffered a humiliating defeat.The operation was planned as a minor reconnaissance across the Potomac to establish whether the Confederates were occupying Leesburg. A false report of an unguarded Confederate camp encouraged Brig. Gen. Charles Pomeroy Stone to order a raid, which clashed with enemy forces. A prominent US Senator in uniform, Colonel Edward Baker, tried to reinforce the Union troops, but failed to ensure that there were enough boats for the river crossings, which were then delayed. Baker was killed, and a newly-arrived Confederate unit routed the rest of Stone’s expedition. The Union losses, although modest by later standards, alarmed Congress, which set-up the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, a body which would provoke years of bitter political infighting.
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Civil War cannon on the Ball's Bluff BattlefieldCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 11:44 AM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Georgia hiking through Ball's Bluff battlefieldCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 11:48 AM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ball's Bluff National Cemetery-54 Union soldiers are burried here. Only one was identified.
A total of 223 Federals were killed, 226 were wounded, and 553 were captured on the banks of the Potomac later that night. Fifty-four Union dead—of whom only one is identified—are buried in Ball's Bluff Battlefield and National Cemetery. Confederate casualties were much lighter at 155 (36 killed; 117 wounded; 2 captured). While terrible, the number of casualties in this early Civil War battle were dwarfed by the carnage of subsequent battles. When the great conflict finally ended in 1865, 750,000 Americans, North and South, had lost their lives.
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Ball's Bluff National Cemetery-Some of the Union deadCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:00 PM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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A soldier known only to GodCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:01 PM•Views: 12No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Many men from Massachusetts fell at Ball's BluffCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:01 PM•Views: 14No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Ball's Bluff National Military CemeteryCapture Date: Jun 15, 2014 12:02 PM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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