Robert E. Lee Slept Here

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	Robert E. Lee Slept Here
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A soft bed and a clean bath--any hotel with a modicum of money and good taste can provide that. But lodgings that preserve an ember of American history? That's an amenity that can't be installed, no matter what the construction budget. Chuck Lawliss describes the history and present condition of Civil War sites and Civil War-related inns spanning 18 states, from the Sherman House in Lancaster, Ohio, where William Tecumseh Sherman was born, to the 1842 Inn in Macon, Georgia, where Jefferson Davis stayed in 1865 as he fled south to avoid capture. In Beaufort, South Carolina, there's the elegant Bay Street Inn, which was once used as a Union hospital, and the Kenmore Inn of Fredericksburg, Virginia, which still bears the scars of the pounding it took from Union shelling. Like greatness, you've either got it or you don't, and with the passing of time, a genuine connection with the Civil War is a special something fewer and fewer spots can boast with a shred of truth intact. --Stephanie Gold