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The entrance to the
Cherry Mansion grounds. The Cherry Mansion, located in Savannah, TN, was
built around 1830 by David Robinson. He gave the house to his daughter on
her marriage to W. H. Cherry, a wealthy Savannah merchant. Cherry was a
staunch Unionist, but the Cherry women were decidedly pro-Southern. When
he used the house as his headquarters, General U.S. Grant was careful not
to wear his uniform in deference to the Cherry ladies |
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Front view of the
Cherry Mansion. The house is privately owned and not open to the public;
however, these photos were taken with special permission of the owners |
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This writing desk is one of two pieces
of furniture known to have been in the Cherry Mansion at the time General
Grant used the house as his headquarters. It isn't known for sure that
Grant used this desk, but its probable that he did |
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This piano, located in the front parlor,
is the other piece of furniture original to the Cherry Mansion. Its
interesting to speculate whether or not the Cherry ladies played this
piano for General Grant while he was in residence. General W.H.L. Wallace
died in a room adjacent to this parlor. The TV trays stacked in back of
the chair to the right are not original to the house! |
