Location Details
- 210 East Main Street (MD 32)Westminster, MD 21157
The owner of this house denied clothes to Confederate soldiers during the occupation of Westminster.
After “Corbit’s Charge,” the Confederate army occupied Westminster for a night before moving on to Gettysburg. The soldiers were badly in need of clothing, and an officer asked Nathan Gorsuch, the owner of the Kimmey House from which he ran a small clothing store, for supplies for the troops. Gorsuch declined to provide clothes for the army, explaining that if did he would be badly criticized by the mostly pro-Union Westminster citizens after the army had left. Surprisingly, the Confederates respected Gorsuch’s wish and left his store alone.
For Additional information
- Frederic Shriver Klein, Just South of Gettysburg: Carroll County, Maryland in the Civil War (Westminster, MD: Historical Society of Carroll County) 1997, 57
- Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (Select “Search by Property” tab, and enter CARR-59 in search box to right of “Site No.”)
