CS McLean, Wilmer

Wilmer McLean​

Born: May 3, 1814

Birthplace: Manassas, Virginia

Father: David McClean 1770 – 1823

(Buried: Saint Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia)​

Mother: Lucretia Hodkingson 1775 – 1821

(Buried: Saint Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia)​

Wife: Virginia Beverley Hooe 1818 – 1893

(Buried: Saint Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia)​

Children:

John Wilmer McLean 1854 – 1920​

(Buried: Saint John's Episcopal Church, Centreville, Virginia)​

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Lucretia Virginia "Lula" McLean Blackwell 1857 – 1886​

(Buried: Saint Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia)​

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Nannie Maury McLean Spilman 1863 – 1923​

(Buried: Saint Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia)​

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Virginia Beverley McLean Tyler 1865 – 1943​

(Buried: Prospect Hill Park Cemetery, Towson, Maryland)​

Occupation before War:

Wholesale Grocer in Manassas, Virginia​

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Major in the Virginia State Militia​

Civil War Role:

Owner of Yorkshire Plantation in Manassas, Virginia​

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His House and Farm was where First Bull Run Took Place​

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Beauregard used his house the McLean House as his headquarters​

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Sugar Broker who supplied the Confederate States Army during War​

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1863: Moved to Appomattox County, Virginia​

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1863 – 1867: Owner of McLean House in Appomattox, Virginia​

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1865: His home in Appomattox is where Lee's Surrender took place​

Life after the War:

1867: Unable to make mortgage payments he sold his Appomattox home​

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Lived at his home in Manassas, Virginia​

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Resident of Alexandria, Virginia​

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1873 – 1876: Worked for United States Internal Revenue Service​

Died: June 5, 1882

Place of Death: Alexandria, Virginia

Age at time of Death: 68 years old

Burial Place: Saint Paul's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia

 

[Pollaco]

His farm in Prince William County was known as Yorkshire. It bordered on Bull Run Creek. The house was used as a headquarters by General Beauregard.The shell that tore through his house while Beauregard was breakfasting is what made him decide to move his family. Unfortunately it was to Appomattox County.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Wilmer McLean! Remembering Mr. Wilmer McLean.

 

[Pollaco]

I have heard that his home at Appomattox was actually the second place that was suggested as the meeting place. The first was rejected. What was the first place thst didn't quite meet the requirements?

 

[Pete Longstreet]

I find McLean's place in history so facilitating. It still seems surreal to me that the war started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor. Amazing.

 

[Grant's Tomb]

Didn't realize both of his parents died before he was even 10 years old

 

[Pollaco]

I've heard that a good deal of his parlor furniture was sold off as souvenirs. Not that he was trying to sell any of it. Generals present shoved money in his hands and more or less just took things.

 

[Pollaco]

After the Battle of Bull Run General Beauregard wrote of the "cannonball ---through-- the-- fireplace" incident. "A comical effect of this artillery fight was the destruction of the dinner of myself and staff by a Federal shell that fell into the fire-place of my headquarters at the McLean House."

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Wilmer McLean

 

[Pollaco]

I have heard that his home at Appomattox was actually the second place that was suggested as the meeting place. The first was rejected. What was the first place thst didn't quite meet the requirements?

That first place was shown by McLean himself. It was rejected and McLean then offered his own home.

 

[ErnieMac]

"The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor." - Wilmer McLean.

Wilmer McLean

This past April 9th was the 150th anniversary of the signing of the surrender to end the Civil War. This date brought to mind the unluckiest civilian in the Civil War. Wilmer McLean lived with his …

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