Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) Section-General Robert E. Lee And the horrific fighting turned

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Mary Thompson House (Lee's HQ) Section-General Robert E. Lee And the horrific fighting turnedHistoric Mary Thompson House Lee's Headquarters The elderly widow Mary Thompson co owned her small house west of Gettysburg on the Chambersburg Pike with Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, a staunch northern abolitionist, when the Battle of Gettysburg began the morning of July 1, 1863. Top commanding Confederate General Robert E. Lee was quick to make her house his headquarters upon realizing its strategic location overlooking the battlefield.