When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Dr. Humphrey Harwood Curtis owned Endview. As captain of the Warwick Beauregards, he organized local volunteers to protect life and property from advancing Union forces. However, by the spring of 1862 the Curtis family fled their home and relocated to North Carolina just south of Danville, Virginia. Endview became a campground and hospital for Confederates, serving as headquarters for Brigadier Generals Lafayette McLaws and Robert Toombs. Both native Georgians, McLaws was a West Point graduate and infantry officer in the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. His wife Emily Taylor was the niece of President Zachary Taylor. Robert Toombs, a U.S. Senator, resigned his seat on February 4, 1861, after Georgia’s secession. Toombs served briefly as Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s Secretary of State before he stepped down to command a brigade from Georgia. In early May 1862, the Confederate Army withdrew from the Warwick-Yorktown line of defenses and the Union Army occupied the entire Lower Peninsula. Later in 1862, Endview was used as a Union army camp.

Markers in the parking lot

Basement museum

Inside of Endview- first floor. Exhibits of Dr. Curtis’ medical equipment

Second floor of Endview- Civil War related exhibits

Replica redoubt in the back of the property- 37.21117, -76.56681

Replica earthworks in the front of the property

The first group of pictures are from the replica redoubt at the bottom of the picture.

The second series of pictures are from the second replica earthwork the redan at the top of the satellite image.

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