Liberia House
Liberia is a two-story, Federal style plantation house built in 1825. It was used as a Confederate headquarters during the Battle of First Manassas in 1861, and afterwards a field hospital. In 1862 it became a Union headquarters, and the site of fighting in the Battle of Second Manassas/Bull Run. Union forces were stationed there as part of the defence of Washington, DC.
Restoration has revealed graffiti, including 8 identified signatures researched by Museum Volunteer Margaret Binning:
- Lt. John Banks Dayton, Pennsylvania 34th Infantry
- Private Preceptor Anthony, Company A, 105th Infantry, New York
- Private William Dudley Conant, Company A, 16th Vermont Infantry
- Private John Benjamin,Company I, 26th NY Volunteers
- Captain Levin Bevin Day, Company D of the 3rd Delaware Infantry
- Private Leverett Horatio Waldo , 130th New York Infantry
- Major James McLaughlin , 26th New York Infantry
- Private Adam McKelvey, Company F, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves