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Title: Tudor Hall: The Boisseau family farm by Arthur W Bergeron ISBN: 0-87517-099-4 Publisher: Dietz Press Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Book
Comment: This book traces the history of the Tudor Hall Plantation, owned by the William Boisseau family of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It details how William began and operated a profitable tobacco farm and how his son, Joseph, switched from tobacco to other crops as the land became worn out. A part of the Tudor Hall story is the occupation of the plantation during the latter part of the Petersburg Campaign by Brigadier General Samuel McGowan's South Carolina brigade. McGowan used the home as his headquarters during that winter, and his men constructed earthwork fortifications across the farm. Lieut. J. F. J. Caldwell, one of McGowan's aides, began writing a history of the brigade while living in Tudor Hall. In late March 1865, McGowan's men were sent elsewhere and were replaced by troops of Brigadier General James H. Lane's North Carolina brigade. The Union Sixth Corps attacked and overran these trenches on the morning of April 2, 1865, in what is known as The Breakthrough. This battle led Robert E. Lee to order the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg. Tudor Hall was ruined as a money-making farm because of the war, and Joseph Boisseau sold it in 1869 to Asahel Gerow, who had moved to Dinwiddie from New York. The land is now the site of Pamplin Historical Park and The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier.

Rating: 5
Summary: Breaks New Ground
Comment: This is the first book that focuses on the history of an upper class family of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It describes how the Boisseau family acquired and built Tudor Hall, how they operated their plantation in the years before the Civil War, and what happened to the property during the Petersburg Campaign.

Although labelled out of print, this book is available from Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, Virginia.