It might seem a little ghoulish, but a house that was riddled with bullets in the American Civil War was still being lived in as a family home right up to 1969.
After an intense battle near Fredericksburg, Virginia, ‘Innis House’ was left barely standing, but was patched up and remained a private residence until the ‘60s, when it was it was acquired by the National Park Service (NPS), who discovered not only bullet holes and shrapnel damage, but also layers of old newspapers and wartime graffiti, including names and regiments of soldiers in the battle. It has now been preserved as an historic monument.
