Sorrel-Weed House on Madison Square
This house was completed around 1838. It is said to be haunted. (See the Wikipedia entry on Sorrel Weed House.)
Excerpts from the marker "Old Sorrel-Weed House:"A fine example of Greek Revival style... The Mediterranean villa influence reflects the French background of the original owner, Francis Sorrel (1793- 1870), a shipping merchant of Savannah who as a child was saved by a faithful slave from the massacre of the white colonists in St. Domingo. The ante-bellum tradition of refinement and hospitality associated with the residence was continued after its purchase in 1859 by Henry D. Weed.
Here resided as a youth G. Moxley Sorrel (1838- 1901) who achieved fame as one of “Lee’s Lieutenants.” Shortly after war broke out in 1861 Sorrel, a young bank clerk in Savannah, proceeded to Virginia where with conspicuous valor and zeal through the major battles and campaigns in that theater from the First Mannassas to Petersburg and was thrice wounded. Sorrel became brig. general at the age of 26... Gen. Sorrel’s “Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer” is an absorbing account of his war experiences.
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