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When I was at the Mabry-Hazen House, I found several things interesting. The most interesting thing to me was how they preserved the antiques. In particular, the pink depression glass stood out. My family has a lot of this at their house and when I saw the depression glass, it made a connection in my head how old it was. This depression glass is almost 100 years old and my family has some. I have always loved this type of glass because it looks so cool.

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My favorite part of our field trip was learning about Bethel Cemetery. I learned that there is 1600 Confederate soldiers buried there many of whom are buried in a mass grave that is marked by placards listing the names of the deceased. Three hundred of those soldiers are from the Battle of Fort Sanders which was the battle I researched for my story quilt. I was surprised to learn that there are also fifty Union soldiers buried there because they died while prisoners of the Confederacy, and twenty Civil War veterans. There is a very tall Confederate monument in Bethel Cemetery that was dedicated in 1892 by the Ladies Memorial Association.

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At the Mabry-Hazen house field trip, I learned that Mr. Mabry allowed both the Unions and Confederates to use the house at different times during the Civil War; he was a business man. I also learned that the Bethel Cemetery has some soldiers buried there that were involved in the Battle at Fort Sanders. The artifacts that were left in the house really interested me. I could not believe how old some of the items were, and that they were still in good condition. One of my favorite artifacts there was a journal entry made that was about the Civil War. I really enjoy reading original writings; although, I could not read much of this artifact. Being that this was one of my favorite artifacts from the Mabry-Hazen house, I took a picture of it. The picture of the journal entry is located below, on the desk, towards the right side of the picture.

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My favorite part about the field trip to the Mabry-Hazen House was seeing the fireplaces in every room. Several of the fireplace mantleswere made out of marble that was locally found. They had fireplaces in everyroom because in 1858 they did not have electricity so they had to use fires toheat the house. Now days a lot of houses do not have fireplaces, because wehave electricity to heat houses. I just thought it was so neat how they used marble from Knoxville to make mantles for the fireplaces.