Winchester, Virginia served as headquarters for both George Washington and Stonewall Jackson.
Washington came to Winchester in 1748, when he was just sixteen. He spent four years there, working as a surveyor along the Virginia frontier. He returned in 1755 as a colonel in the Virginia militia. He commanded the militia and supervised the construction of a fort from an office inside the building shown above. Route 50 runs right next to the building.
The Confederate Civil War general Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson lived in Winchester during the winter of 1861-62. Based on his letters, he liked it. He was the commanding general responsible for Confederate campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley. He planned those campaigns in this house.
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Photos by the author.