To-day gladdens the hearts of all true Americans, the spectacle of a re-united country, knit together in real brotherhood of its citizens and in the bonds of an honorable, cordial and lasting pacification—and not least, the spectacle of veterans of the Army of the Potomac joining hands with veterans of [the] Army of Northern Virginia, to establish, as we here to-day establish, this “Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home.” —Colonel Archer Anderson, Address on the opening of Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home, May 20, 1885 Richmond’s Robinson House, like many venerable Virginia homes, has stood as a witness to much history. This is the story of a house that from its humble beginnings in 1828 grew to become the three-story edifice it is today. It stood through our nation’s most bitter domestic conflict and became a key element in a beautiful story of reconciliation—a home for indigent and disabled veterans of that fierce …