Last year, the owners of the Magee Farmhouse Site, near Mobile, Alabama, where initial negotiations were carried out for the final Confederate surrender east of the Mississippi, announced that they were probably going to have to close because of lack of funds.
However, the director of the Spanish Fort Park, JoAnn Flirt, has offered to move the building to her site. Ben George, co-owner of the Magee property says that they will also need $200,000 to pay off the mortgage. She calls this a deal-breaker. The park can come up with the $75,000 to $100,000 to move it, but not he other $200,000.
The two-story farmhouse was built in 1848 by Jacob Magee. This is where Union General E.R.S. Canby and Confederate General Richard Taylor met a few weeks after the North's victory at the Battle of Blakely, April 9, 1865, the last major battle of the war east of the Mississippi.
The actual surrender of Confederate forces took place at Citronelle a few days after the Magee meeting.
The Union band commenced playing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" until Canby ordered them to play "Dixie."
The home has some original furniture and several hundred Civil War artifacts.
here's Hoping They Save It. --Blockade-R
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