The Confederate Room

Southern exposure, Southern charm, Southern elegance! All await you upon your arrival into the Confederate Room. This is the room that Jefferson Davis or Robert E Lee might have found rest in. As you sink down into the queen bed you can almost smell the roses in the garland draped through the canopy over head. Snuggle into the quilts, pull out a book and read about these gentlemen of the South.

As you walk to the private bath or to the guest refrigerator to grab a soda, scrunch your bare toes into the thick Oriental carpet. If you prefer relaxing in a chair as you curl up to read or talk, choose either the love seat sofa bed or the Amish made cherry Windsor chair.

Gaze out one of the five windows and imagine what the scenery was like in the 1800's. Were there many trees? Where exactly was the road? What was around the bend? Let your imagination wander to the past as you view the beauty of the present.

General
Robert E. Lee

Lee became commander of the 50,000-man Confederate army in 1862. At that time he was nicknamed "Granny Lee" because he was a lackluster, fussy staff officer with very little experience. He named his soldiers the Army of Northern Virginia and set out to have them build a 16 mile trench using picks and spades in order to protect Richmond from the Union army. Little did anyone know at the time that he would prove to be one of the most outstanding military commanders in history. During the height of the war, Lee traveled with a pet hen who laid an egg under his cot every morning.

"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never do less."

It is well that war is so terrible - lest we should grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee