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This clash is detailed in A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

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

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Lydia Leister Farm - House or Barn (Meade's HQ) caisson This is the riveting trueThe 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