This single-room cabin, built about six miles east of here as the home of John Janeway and his wife, Gertrude, is typical of dwellings in Appalachian Tennessee. During the Civil War, Janeway joined the fighting late, in June 1864, after encountering a group of Union soldiers on his way to Massengill Mill to deliver a load of corn, enlisting in the 14th Illinois Cavalry at age 17 and changing his last name to January to keep his parents from finding him. He was captured during Gen. George Stoneman's raid on Macon, Georgia, held in a Confederate prison, and released in December 1864. After the Battle of Knoxville in November 1863, Union and Confederate forces occupied parts of Grainger County. Union Gen. James G. Spears, commanding the 25th Infantry Brigade, made his headquarters at Stones Mill, a mile east of the cabin. On December 17, his troops clashed with Confederate Gen. James Longstreet's command on the southside east of Richland Creek. By December 21, Longstreet had established headquarters at Shields Station, while Spears had moved his headquarters to Massengill Mill by December 23, and the war then moved away from the cabin. In 1928, when Janeway was 81 years old, he married 18-year-old Gertrude Grubb. After he died in 1937, Gertrude Janeway continued to live in the cabin until her death in 2003 as Tennessee's last widow of a Union veteran.