Chatham Manor - Built 1768

 

  The stately plantation house overlooking Fredericksburg hosted George Washington,

Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. during the battle of Fredericksburgs ,union

surgeons used the building as a field hospital. among those who cared for the wounde

was Clara Barton, who later founded the American Red Cross. Despite her efforts, more

than 130 Union soldiers died and were buried in the yard.