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CHANTILLY ROOM.—This is a small hall room, with a single bed, and furnished
by Mr. H. F. Going, who has been active and helpful in all matters connected with
Confederate work. Chantilly was an estate on the picket line, while the army was
encamped at Centreville, in the autumn of 1861, and is associated with pleasant
recollections by members of the First Maryland Infantry.

WILLIAM E. COLSTON ROOM.—This room was one of the first furnished and
presents an attractive and comfortable appearance. The room was furnished by
Captain Frederick M. Colston, Assistant to Chief Ordnance Officer, Army of
Northern Virginia, a brother of William E. Colston.

William E. Colston was born in Washington March 24, 1839, but his early years were
spent in Virginia, the home of his ancestors. He came to Baltimore about 1857, and was
among the first to go to Virginia when the war broke out. On June 1, 1861, he enlisted
as a private in Company B, Maryland Guard, attached to the Twenty-first Virginia Infantry,
but when the First Maryland Regiment was formed, was transferred to Company H, Captain
William H. Murray, June 18, 1861. In this company he served in all the campaigns and
battles of the year, and at the battle of Cross Keys, June 8, 1862, in Jackson's Valley
campaign, he was desperately wounded, being shot through the body. He was permanently
injured by this wound and disabled (or a long time, but as soon as able to ride, he was
appointed volunteer aide to Major-General Trimble. General Trimble being wounded and
left at Gettysburg, Colston then volunteered into Mosby's command, and was killed in the
night attack on Harper's Ferry, January 10, 1864. He is buried in the Confederate lot at
Loudon Park with his old comrades of Company H.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL LLOYD TILGHMAN BUILDING.—This building contains
the Colonel James R. Herbert Room, which is furnished with hard wood furniture,
in keeping with those in the other buildings. Mr. M. J. Block, Mr. Thomas W.
Morse and Mr. Thomas McNulty solicited subscriptions sufficient to furnish it.
The other room in this building is furnished by the Home temporarily with cots.

General Lloyd Tilghman of Talbot County. Maryland, was educated at West Point.
At Fon Henry, February 6, 1862, he held the fort until nearly half his gunners were killed
or wounded. When Foote took the fort he had as prisoners General Tilghman and staff,
and sixty men. General Tilghman remained as prisoner a few months and was exchanged.
In the fall of 1862 he rejoined the Army of the West, then in Mississippi, and was put in
command of the First Brigade, Loring's Division. At the battle of Corinth he took a
prominent part, and in all subsequent operations of that army, under Van Dorn, and after-
wards Pemberton, he bore a conspicuous part up to the time of his death. General
Tilghman was killed by a shell on the evening of May 16,. 1863, on the battlefield of Baker's
Creek, or Champion Hill. Mississippi.