The Redding House is a large double-pen log structure with an open breezeway between the pens and stone chimneys on either end, standing as an example of a working farm operated by the Redding family during the war. Along with the house, the farm would have included stables, cribs, and other outbuildings, and although there is no record of camps, short-term Confederate camps may have been in the area. The site illustrates the work done by women of the Confederacy when most men were away in the army, leaving county women responsible for managing farms and, with the help of their children and enslaved Africans if they owned any, producing food for themselves and a surplus for sale to the army. Some women also worked under government contract making uniforms, with the state quartermaster office employing male tailors to cut uniforms from patterns and then sending the cut uniforms, thread, buttons, and other accessories to women for sewing. Women supported the Confederate cause in many other ways through local Soldiers Relief Societies made up of women and girls, who met to make quilts, knit socks and mittens, sew uniforms, roll bandages, and gather socks, shirts, pants, blankets, food, reading material, Bibles, and religious pamphlets for soldiers in camps and at the front. Overcrowded camps, unsanitary conditions, and infections killed thousands of Georgia Confederate soldiers, and because more soldiers died from illness than from battle wounds, the Confederacy established a hospital complex at Ringgold, Georgia, where women, including some young women from Dade County, helped care for the sick and wounded by bringing food, reading and writing letters, assisting surgeons, and changing dressings. After the battle of Chickamauga, some less seriously wounded soldiers were brought to private homes in Dade County for nursing and convalescence. In this part of Dade County, Soldiers Relief Society activities were directed by Manerva Redding and her mother, and other women brought the articles they had made to the Redding House so Manerva and her mother could deliver them to Confederate camps.