点评:I have a passion for antebellum houses, a trademark of the Old South. You'd know what I mean if you have ever visited Vicksburg or Natchez or St. Francisville or Roslyn.
But that's not all. Take Cherry Mansion, for example. Located at 235 West Main Street in Savannah, Tennessee, on a bluff overlooking the east bank of the Tennessee River, it is a white Georgian building with a two-level porch on its west front, facing the river. Built in 1829, it sits atop the site of a palisaded prehistoric settlement established about 2,000 years ago. More recently, it was Union General Ulysses S. Grant' headquarters during the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. Two Union generals, C.F. Smith and W.H.L. Wallace, died in the house in the aftermath of the battle. According to accounts of the Cherry family, which owned the house until 1935, Grant and his staff had just sat down at the breakfast table on April 6, 1862, when they heard cannon fire indicating that a battle had begun about seven miles up the river. Leaving their meals uneaten, they boarded a steamboat at the landing below the house to travel to Shiloh Landing. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
翻译:我对美国南北战争前的老式住宅情有独钟,它们可是“旧南方”地区的典型标志。如果你曾去过维克斯堡、纳奇兹、圣弗朗西斯维尔或罗斯林,就一定能明白我的意思。
不过,这还不是全部。以樱桃庄园为例吧。它坐落于田纳西州萨凡纳市的西主街235号,坐落在俯瞰田纳西河东岸的峭壁上。这是一座白色的乔治亚风格建筑,西侧正面有一个两层高的门廊,正对着河流。该建筑建于1829年。它坐落于一处约2000年前形成的、有栅栏环绕的史前聚落遗址之上。后来,在1862年的希尔兹堡战役期间,这里成为了北方联邦将军尤利西斯·S·格兰特的指挥部。战役结束后,两位北方联邦将军——C.F.史密斯与W.H.L.华莱士——便在这栋房子里去世。据直到1935年一直拥有此房屋的彻里家族所述,1862年4月6日那天,格兰特和他的幕僚们刚刚在早餐桌旁落座。当他们听到炮声,得知河上游约七英里处战斗已经打响时,顾不得吃完饭,便在房子下方的码头登上汽船,前往希洛码头。这座房子于1977年被列入美国国家历史名胜名录。