Stone House stood at a strategic intersection whose roadbeds have not changed, linking today’s landscape to the battlefield scene as thousands of soldiers noticed it while marching through. During both battles, Federals turned the former tavern into a field hospital. Its bloody floorboards were not unusual, since most houses in the area became crowded with wounded men, yet soldiers mentioned this particular structure in diary after diary. Its relatively unscarred walls may have offered an image of peacetime amid fields of terror. In March 1862, the house was photographed, and much of the structure may be original, including the stone walls, window frames, and some floorboards.
