Ruins of Montgomery Blair's house at Silver Spring burnt by the Confederates under General Early

Photo shows the mansion called Falkland, built in the 1850s as a summer residence and burned by either Confederate troops or camp followers on July 12, 1864. (Source: Silver Spring Patch blog post, July 15, 2011)
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Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, Gist Blair, 1936); 1963 July.