In September 1862, while in Urbana, Maryland, on the Maryland Campaign, Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) decided to take a break from the American Civil War and stage a grand party at the Landon House (also known, since the 1940s, as the Stancioff House), a former silk mill, schoolhouse, and site of the Landon Military Academy.
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