The Latest: Renovation of Lee’s Gettysburg HQ is unveiled

The Latest on a $6 million restoration of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Gettysburg headquarters:

3:15 p.m.

The head of a preservation group is lauding a $6 million project to restore the stone house and grounds that served as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s headquarters at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The president of Civil War Trust said Friday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony that “if Robert E. Lee rode up today on his horse, Traveler, he’d know where he was.”

The 4-acre property had been privately owned ever since the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, sprouting a motel, restaurant and other modern structures that dismayed preservationists and history buffs.

The group bought the property in January 2015, demolished all modern buildings and restored the circa-1830s stone house. Plans call for the site to be turned over to the National Park Service.

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12:45 a.m.

A preservation group is wrapping up a $6 million project to restore the stone house and grounds that served as Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s headquarters at Gettysburg.

More than 600 people are expected at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the historic site Friday.

The 4-acre property had been privately owned ever since the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, sprouting a motel, restaurant and other modern structures that dismayed preservationists and history buffs.

James Lighthizer, president of Civil War Trust, says it was “one of the most important unprotected historic buildings in America.”

The group bought the property in January 2015, demolished all modern buildings and restored the circa-1830s stone house. Plans call for the site to be turned over to the National Park Service.