Confederate sharpshooters once occupied this 1810 redbrick Federal house near the National Cemetery, and you can still see lots of bullet holes. Loring H. Shultz sells Civil War prints and books in a shop next door, and he and his family opened the bed-and-breakfast in 1989. The lushly Victorian guest rooms have antique marbletop dressers, beds with fishnet canopies, and Oriental rugs scat-tered before the fireplaces. A wicker-filled sunroom is the perfect place to relax; it looks out on gardens where, in summer, you can dine in the open air, alongside a stone-lined stream that pro-vided water for both armies. The restaurant specializes in mid-l9th-century food, and an excellent house specialty is a game pie of pleasant, duck, and turkey. In the attic and basement, the Shultzes display their collection of artifacts from daily life in the Civil War period.
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