Cartersville

On June 28, 1865, the family boarded a packet boat on James River and Kenwha Canal in Richmond.

Towed slowly upriver by teams of mules passing the ruined plantations and battered blocks of the canal, they arrived at Cartersville, where wagons met them to transport Mary in her wheelchair to Derwent.

The cottage was a modest, unpretentious, two-story frame house, the central hall, four rooms, and a basement.

The furnishings were simple pieces of painted pine lent by the owner.