During and following the war the owners of the fine mansions in town paid their bills by renting out rooms to Union officers. During Reconstruction the widow who owned Wakefield (perhaps having purchased it from your ggg grandfather) scandalized the town by marrying the Union officer who was renting her home. The love affair inspired novelist Sherwood Bonner, who lived across the street, to write the novel "Like Unto Like." The novel is definitely dated, but interesting in that it presents a much kinder and gentler version of Reconstruction than the Thomas Dixon novels even as there are some echos of the Dixon themes.