Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. In the winter of 1863 a South Carolina grade of the Confederate Army camped near montpelier. James madisons homes. Matthew reeves takes us on archaeology project striving to learn more how civil war soldiers lived in Winter Quarters. We are located on the north side of the property across route 20 just behind where the gilmore cabin stands. Where were at is at the site of a set of confederate winter encampments from the winter of 1863 and 1864. This is the area we found through archeological surveys the general Samuel Mcgowan his South Carolina trips were located through 1864. The significance of this time period is that following gettysburg, lee brought his army from Northern Virginia retreated to the south, came into Orange County and eventually went into Winter Quarters here in Orange County with montpelier being the western most extent for the entire army. From montpelier from the archeological data we found
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