Golden Thread Photos of homes on Civil War travels

Well, Napoleon's valet, Jean-Baptiste Cipriani, who resembled him closely, died on the island of St Helen in 1818.
Empereur dies the 5 may 1821.
When his tomb was opened at the same time as Napoleon's in 1840, it was empty.

The second major fact was 20 years later. One of Napoleon officer concludes that Cipriani's body was substituted for that of the emperor, who had bribed the British governor to look the other way.

So did Napoleon fakes his own die, or may be not?

I'm familiar with the story of Cipriani and his supposed resemblance to the young Napoleon, as well as the likely bogus "Napoleon's death mask" possibly made using Cipriani's corpse as the true subject. I seriously doubt Napoleon faked his own death and tend to believe Ben Wieder's theory based on forensic examination of strands of Napoleon's hair that he likely died of arsenic poisoning, whether deliberate at the hands of Count Montholon (a likely suspect) or accidental, who knows?
 
The Allen House just south of Mansfield, Louisiana. An updated picture. Posted one from 2015 earlier in this thread. Went there again last weekend with a better camera. The house and fence had been recently painted too.

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Good to see it's being kept up - when I went by last year after the Civil War Trust's dedication ceremony in April it was looking pretty shabby and forlorn.
 
All gorgeous homes, never tire of looking at the architecture. Never knew the name of my favorite photograph, Oak Alley Plantation, which I know I've either seen in a movie or on one of my trips through Pinterest.

Phenomenal photos!
 
* Myrtledene Mansion (circa : 1833) in Lebanon, Kentucky. This house was used as a headquarters for Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan during his first raid in the state of Kentucky.

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Thanks @Jimklag for resurrecting this thread and reminding me! Above, the Cherry Mansion in Savannah, Tennessee, headquarters to Union generals W. F. Smith and U. S. Grant before the Battle of Shiloh and where both Smith and W. H. L. Wallace died. Here's a link to my thread on the house: https://www.civilwartalk.com/thread...ts-headquarters-in-savannah-tennessee.146968/

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Nearby Corinth, Mississippi has several interesting antebellum homes as well; here are two that were used as headquarters by generals on both sides. Above, Oak Home used by Confederate General Leonidas Polk; below, the Curlee or Verandah House was used by Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and John B. Hood and subsequently by Union General Henry Halleck. For more about Verandah House: https://www.civilwartalk.com/thread...anned-here-at-corinths-verandah-house.147031/

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Thanks @Jimklag for resurrecting this thread and reminding me! Above, the Cherry Mansion in Savannah, Tennessee, headquarters to Union generals W. F. Smith and U. S. Grant before the Battle of Shiloh and where both Smith and W. H. L. Wallace died. Here's a link to my thread on the house: https://www.civilwartalk.com/thread...ts-headquarters-in-savannah-tennessee.146968/

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Nearby Corinth, Mississippi has several interesting antebellum homes as well; here are two that were used as headquarters by generals on both sides. Above, Oak Home used by Confederate General Leonidas Polk; below, the Curlee or Verandah House was used by Confederate General Braxton Bragg and subsequently Union General Henry Halleck. For more about Verandah House: https://www.civilwartalk.com/thread...anned-here-at-corinths-verandah-house.147031/

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Excellent. I have to get to Corinth. I've been to Savannah, TN.
 
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