A piece of Civil War history has been discovered in Virginia. But it wasn’t intentional. It’s still here in part because the Civil War Hospital in Culpeper became so dirty that people referred to it as The Graffiti House.
Often Civil War patients at the hospital …. out of boredom …. apparently used charcoal to make scribblings on the walls. Charcoal is an inert substance that does not deteriorate. Then the walls became so grimey that a thin layer of film covered the scribblings, just prior to the walls being whitewashed.
Now historians are painstakingly removing the whitewash to discover the authentic thoughts and messages from the soldiers of another era. They’ve discovered that the grimey film actually helped to preserve the scribblings underneath the whitewash. You can read the amazing DETAILS HERE.
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