The small Gothic Revival cottage on North Braddock Street served as Stonewall Jackson's headquarters from November 1861 to March 1862, during the planning phase of his legendary Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Jackson used the house — owned at the time by a Lieutenant Colonel Lewis T. Moore — as his base of operations while organizing the Army of the Valley into the fast-moving force that would confound Union commanders for the next six months. The house still contains period furnishings and several of Jackson's personal effects, including his prayer table and camp equipment.
The museum is operated by the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society and is open Thursday through Monday from April through October, with limited winter hours. Guided tours take about 45 minutes and are led by knowledgeable volunteers who can trace the campaign movements on maps of the valley. The house itself is modest — Jackson was famously indifferent to personal comfort — but the displays make clear the scale of what was planned here. Winchester and the Valley would see six more major engagements before the war was over.