Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 19, page 236 with photograph, May 12, 1862

Regarding General Robert E. Lee's house, the White House. Transcription: 205 On the Pamunkey River. which contained some few articles of furniture cotemporary with the great American, one a table on which it is said that he ate his wedding breakfast. But the most attractive objects to our eyes were the beds; however we couldn't be allowed to sleep there, nor would the overseer be tempted to accommodate us for photograph The White House, Ex-residence of General Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, on the site of an house occupied by Washington and his wife. the night, pleading lack of room in his house. So we continued our stroll along the line of cliff, by the negro-houses, their many inmates eyeing us curiously. Going down to the beach of the beautiful river we found a little party of handsomely dressed naval officers, belonging to a steamer, to which they were about putting-off in a boat.

Date

1862

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