File Name	shades_eths_0001.tif
Title	Bleak House
Alternate Title	Confederate Memorial Hall
Date	ca. 1854-1858
Genre	Photographs
Description	Antebellum Italian revival house on landscaped grounds, Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Historical note	Bleak House, the home of Robert Houston and Louisa Franklin Armstrong, was one of several fashionable houses of wealthy Knoxvillians built just before the Civil War. Armstrong and other prominent Unionists (such as Perez Dickinson and John J. Craig, who also owned homes of a similar Italianate style), left the city in the early years of the war. Louisa Franklin Armstrong remained in Knoxville and her home was used as the headquarters for Confederate generals James Longstreet and Lafayette McLaws during the 1863 "Siege of Knoxville." On November 18, 1863, Union General William P. Sanders was shot and killed, reputedly by sharpshooters located in the tower. Charcoal drawings of the faces of three men, apparently sketched by federal soldiers, can be found today on the north wall of the tower's interior. Both Confederate and Union veterans visited Bleak House, now a museum called Confederate Memorial Hall, during Civil War reunions.
Subject	Architecture, Domestic
Theme	Visualizing the War The Persistence of Memory
Story	Orlando Poe Reunions and Tourism
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee-Knoxville
Time period	1850-1859, 1890-1899
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the East Tennessee Historical Society.
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Contributing Institution	East Tennessee Historical Society
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,109
Archival file	shades3/shades_eths_0001.tif