BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Brandy Station -- Graffiti House

VA -- Brandy Station -- Graffiti House:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GRAFFH_060716_002.JPG: The Graffiti House
2. GRAFFH_060716_169.JPG: This corner has a large scrawl of the United States of America which covers up some previous Confederate writing.
3. GRAFFH_060716_176.JPG: They traced this guy down to be a Union general who was in jail in New Orleans in 1860.
Wikipedia Description: Graffiti House
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The Graffiti House, located at 19484 Brandy Road in the eastern end of the town of Brandy Station, Virginia, is believed by the Brandy Station Foundation to have been built in 1858. It is one of few dwellings in the village built before the American Civil War to survive intact to this day. The house is notable because of the Civil War era graffiti on many of the walls. The graffiti found includes names, drawings, names of units, and inscriptions left by soldiers.

Because of its location on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad and the Carolina Road, the house, which was less than 0.25 miles (0.40 km) from the train depot, is thought by the Foundation to have been a commercial building as well as a dwelling. The Foundation reports that some graffiti has been removed or destroyed but considerable graffiti still remain. New graffiti were discovered as recently as December 2010.

The house was owned by James Barbour during the Civil War but his main residence was about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the south. Barbour served on the staff of Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell.

Because of its strategic location, the house was used extensively by both the Union Army and Confederate States Army throughout the Civil War. It was used as a field hospital by the Confederates during the Battle of Brandy Station and at other times when battles occurred in the area. It was probably used as a field hospital for wounded soldiers evacuated by train after the Battle of First Bull Run or First Manassas. The earliest known graffiti in the house date to the Second Manassas Campaign in August 1862, as the armies transited Culpeper County.

At the outset of the Gettysburg Campaign, the Battle of Brandy Station, the largest cavalry battle ever to take place in North America occurred on June 9, 1863 in the fields adjacent to the Graffiti House. After the fighting ended, the house was used as a Confederate field hospital. Later that year, Federal troops occupied the building when the Army of the Potomac camped in Culpeper County during the winter of 1863-64. The house was headquarters to Brigadier General Henry Prince, a division commander in the Third Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the Union Army pursuit of the Army of Northern Virginia after its retreat from the Battle of Gettysburg, sometimes called the Rapidan campaign but this name could be confused with the beginning of the Overland Campaign, and during the Mine Run Campaign later in 1863.

The plaster walls on the second floor of the house are covered with an outstanding and unique collection of charcoal and pencil graffiti left by soldiers from both armies. In addition to their autographs, the soldiers drew elaborate pictures of men and women, and wrote inscriptions commemorating their units and their battles. After the war, the graffiti were painted and papered over and forgotten. The graffiti were rediscovered during a renovation in 1993. The Brandy Station Foundation purchased the house in 2002. The graffiti may be viewed on certain days listed on the Foundation web site. The house includes a small museum and serves as a headquarters for the Brandy Station Foundation and the Foundation's visitor center for the Brandy Station battlefield.

Graffiti that have been identified

Below is listed the names and units of those who have been identified in the Graffiti House:

Sergeant Allen Bowman, Co. E, 12th Virginia Cavalry
Private Michael Bowman, Co. H 7th Virginia Cavalry
Private Hamilton Boyd, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private George Washington Butt, Norfolk Light Artillery (Huger’s Battery)
Private James A. J. Cooper, Co. A, 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry (White’s Comanche’s)
Captain Edwin Dillingham, 10th Vermont Infantry
Private C. Benton Evans, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private William Evans, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Colonel John Egbert Farnum, Commander, 70th New York Infantry
Lieutenant Lyman C. Gale, Co. K, 10th Vermont Infantry
Corporal Fayette Gibson, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Thomas ‘Herb’ Greenwell, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Uriah Haller, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private William J. Haney, 24th Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers
Private Henry ‘Hal’ Hopkins, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private William Hopkins, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Bob Lewis, Norfolk Light Artillery (Huger’s Battery)
Private George McCabe Jr., Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Lieutenant William J. Marshall, Co. E, 12th Virginia Cavalry
Lieutenant Joseph Moore, Norfolk Light Artillery (Huger’s Battery)
Private Edward Moreland, Norfolk Light Artillery (Huger’s Battery)
Private A Muth, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private George W. Orrison, Co. C, 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry (White’s Comanche’s)
Private David Owens, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Robert Peed, Norfolk Light Artillery (Huger’s Battery)
Private David Owens, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Dan Quinlan, Massachusetts Light Battery ‘C’
Private Elijah Russell, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Commander, Army of Northern Virginia Cavalry
Sergeant Henry Thomas, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Harry Wagner, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Harry Wickes, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery
Private Thomas ‘Frank’ Yates, Breathed’s Battery, Stuart Horse Artillery

Below is listed the names of those who have not been identified in the Graffiti House:

Lewis Metta
Frank E. Kelly
M Rown
T.E. Kelly
Emanuel
A.L. Brynn

Notes on the names

All the names of Breathed's Battery are found on the Maryland Scroll, created on March 16, 1863, the day before the Battle of Kelly’s Ford, in which these artillery units participated.
William Haney is believed to have served in four separate units
30th Virginia Infantry
13th Virginia Infantry
24th Battalion Partisan Rangers
35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry.

It is likely that he signed the walls of the Graffiti House while serving in the 24th Battalion Partisan Rangers.

Robert Peed also identifies himself with Gannett’s Artillery Battalion. Peed signed the walls in five locations.
Allen Bowman signed the walls in two locations

Units separately identified

2nd New York Militia
Louisiana Tigers
2nd Division 3rd Corps
10th New Jersey Infantry
Stuart Horse Artillery
Army of the United States of America
Hill’s Corps
Gannett’s Battalion
Remember the Baltimore Artillery, September the 2nd, 1863

Events and locations identified

Battle of Beverly Ford, April 16, 1863 (likely done by a member of either the 9th or 13th Virginia Cavalry)
June 8, 1863 (possibly done by a member of the 1st SC Cavalry)
"How are you Fort Sumter” (done by the 2nd NY Militia)
Petersburg
Rappahannock
March 16, 1863
August 7, 1863
Portsmouth, Virginia
Loudoun County
Washington, D.C.
Richmond
Baltimore

Drawings

Of the drawings found, only two have been identified:

Captain James Breathed and
The Maryland Scroll.

Other drawings

5 horses (one may be a mule)
a male civilian in coat and tails
an eagle/bird
a fort
a soldier in a slouch hat and mustache
a soldier in a slouch hat and beard
a young women in a fancy dress, hat with ribbons, walking on a board or plank, saying "I am turned over to Lt. Gale"
a older women smoking a long pipe
a young women in a straw hat riding side-saddle
a young women wearing a scarf carrying a basket
a bald man
a pair of women in coats and hats, with their arms in a muffler, saying "I am turned over to Capt. Dillingham"
a male civilian wearing a hat with a sword in his left hand. In the body of the man "President J. Davis good on the boots"
a man in a bowler (or derby), with mutton chops, saying he "smells a rebel." He is facing the rear of a horse.
a Federal soldier in a kepi
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