The 1863 Union raid on Lenoir Station, now Lenoir City, changed the lives of the family that owned the 2,700-acre plantation there. Dr. Benjamin B. Lenoir was one of four brothers who owned the property, and his wife, Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir, was the daughter of Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey, a leading Knoxville physician and historian. On June 19, 1863, Henrietta Lenoir walked out of her house and encountered Union Col. William P. Sanders and his forces; at first, because of their dusty uniforms, she mistook them for Confederates and was shocked to discover that they were Federals. Dr. Ramsey later wrote that his daughter removed money from the safe in the family store, hid it within several hanks of yarn, then quietly passed out of the store, through the house, and deposited the unseen treasure under a hedge in the garden. At the end of the summer, other Union troops occupied the railroad line, stripped the plantation, took possession of Dr. Lenoir’s office, and established their headquarters there, with officers’ tents pitched in the yard and gardens around the house. The Lenoirs later drew up a document claiming $70,000 in losses of 3,000 bushels of corn, 600 bushels of wheat, 50,000 pounds of hay, 400 head of livestock, 40,000 feet of timber, and 130 cotton bales. In addition, the family suffered the deaths of two young sons. In the spring of 1864, Henrietta Lenoir bore another son but remained deeply depressed, and she died on May 25, 1864, at age 30.