{"id":5925,"date":"2011-04-19T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:29:27","slug":"150-years-ago-april-19th-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=5925","title":{"rendered":"150 years ago {April 19th, 1861}"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u00a0am always fascinated to learn more about the rich history all around our home here in Virginia.\u00a0 We frequently make trips to Maryland and Pennsylvania, often seeing places of Civil War significance.\u00a0 I’m especially excited when we can visit a place that we have never visited before.\u00a0 We had that opportunity when when the Boy Scouts group visited the Arlington House <\/a> at Arlington National\u00a0 Cemetery.\u00a0\u00a0 Our visit was planned precisely at the 150th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s “Great Decision”<\/a> .\u00a0\u00a0 In April 1861, Lee made what is known as “the most pivotal decision in the Civil War”.\u00a0 When his home state of Virginia seceded, Lee resigned from the U.S. Army\u00a0(he had been offered command of Union forces)\u00a0and supported the Confederacy.<\/div>\n
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The Arlington House, with 8 columns on the portico<\/p><\/div>\n

The history of the Arlington House is incredibly interesting. If you have the time, please visit the link above to learn all about this famous home.\u00a0 The house was constructed and owned by George Washington’s adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis.\u00a0 Apparently Custis inherited the 1,100 acres of land when he was just 3.\u00a0 The Greek Revival-style home took 16 years to complete and is noted for its grand portico columns.\u00a0 Robert E. Lee married the Custis’ only surviving child, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, who was given the right to inhabit and control the house for the remainder of her life.\u00a0 The Arlington House was the Lee’s home for 30 years, and 6 of his 7 children were born there in the dressing room off of the master bedroom. While walking through the house, I read a interesting tidbit – that Lee regularly picked a rose from the garden to place at his wife and daughter’s setting at breakfast<\/em>. \u00a0To learn in detail how Arlington National Cemetery developed at the Arlington House grounds, read here<\/a>. \u00a0It really is a fascinating history. \u00a0I hope to return again soon, as we took the 7:00 pm tour and it became too dark to see many details (such as Union soldier’s signatures and “graffiti” written on the attic rafters). \u00a0Most of the furniture was removed as well for an ongoing renovation. \u00a0I’d love to see the period furniture in this setting!<\/p>\n

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View of DC from The Arlington House<\/p><\/div>\n

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Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0am always fascinated to learn more about the rich history all around our home here in Virginia.\u00a0 We frequently make trips to Maryland and Pennsylvania, often seeing places of Civil War significance.\u00a0 I’m especially excited when we can visit a place that we have never visited before.\u00a0 We had that opportunity when when the Boy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times","category-things-to-see"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}