Hi, Martin,
 
We discovered a lot of things, including several previous errors in our research on the Wickliffe connection to the chair.   Eleanor Wickliffe Magee, who I originally described as Governor Robert C. Wickliffe's daughter, was instead the daughter of Captain John D. Wickliffe, a first cousin of  Gov. Robert C., and nephew of Governor Charles A. Wickliffe of Kentucky.  Charles A. was later also named U. S. Postmaster General by President Polk.
 
The story that Mrs. Magee told us when she left the chair behind in 1944 was that her father, a union army officer, rescued the chair from the burning capitol and that it came from the office of the governor.  She commented that it should be left in Louisiana, where it belonged.  Research shows her father, Capt. John D. Wickliffe, Co. A, Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, USA, was at least temporarily attached to the 21st Indiana during the occupation of Baton Rouge, 1862-'63.   I assumed Governor Wickliffe had rescued the chair, but Dee Dee found out Eleanor was the daughter of John D. Wickliffe and the story unfolded just as Mrs. Magee said.  So Captain John D. Wickliffe was in Baton Rouge on the night of December 31, 1862 when the capitol burned as a result of a cooking fire built on the marble floor of the grand entrance hall by Negro troops bivouaced in the building.
 
Captain John D. Wickliffe was the son of Nathaniel Wickliffe  (brother of Kentucky Governor Charles A.) and  Anne Logan, daughter of farmed Revolutionary War General Benjamin Logan. (See attached geneaology) After John D. Wickliffe's first wife died, he married the daughter of his first cousin, Judge John Crepps Wickliffe, one-arm hero and veteran (colonel) of the Confederate Kentucky cavalry, and had six children with her.  The eldest was Eleanor, born in 1884.
 
Eleanor did not marry Wiley C. Magee, her first and only husband, until age 40 and had no children.  When she left Bogalusa to return to Wickland in Bardstown, Ky, she sold some of the larger pieces of furniture in the house at 329 Carolina Avenue to my father.  These pieces included a dining table with eight chairs, a China cabinet, a decorative matching sideboard and an armoire.   None of them seemed to me to be older than maybe 30-40 years.  She gave my father the chair just saying it should not leave the state of Louisiana.
 
I have not seen any pictures of Wyoming other than on the internet (there is an old one posted there or a picture that seems to have been taken around the turn of the century).
The Bogalusa Pioneer Museum in Cassidy Park is the home of a 17th century book of English Law that Mrs. Magee said belonged to her grandfather, Nathaniel Wickliffe.  Almost all the Wickliffe men were lawyers.  There is also a first or second edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales" that belonged to Mrs. Magee's mother.   Mrs. Magee left her entire library behind and after years of storage in wooden crates after my parents sold the two-story house, I donated them to the Washington Parish Library in Bogalusa.  That was in about 1973.  They were very old then and may or not be even there today.  Some of the books were signed "John D. Wickliffe" and "Charles A. Wickliffe" on the flysheet.  There was a complete set of the works of Alexandre Dumas, Honore DeBalzac, Sir Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others.  I had read them all by the time I was 12 years old (I had learned to read well before I started first grade and was very bored in school.) and developed an unfettered imagination due to what I read.   
 
I thought Anna Dawson Wickliffe was buried in Bardstown alongside her husband.  Look at those photographs you sent me.  Isn't that the tombstone says?  If she and her son were buried at Wyoming, logic says he had her disinterred and moved to Cave Hill Cemetery with the other Wickliffes and their wives and children.  All the men went to Kentucky for burial, even though they lived their lives in Louisiana.
 
Anyway, the only three other things I have that belonged to Mrs. Magee are a green glass compote, the pre World War II Noritake China tray with a handle where she kept her hat pins, and a little brass lamp missing its glass globe.   I do not know how old these items are, but she allowed me to pick out several things I wanted from her bedroom.  These are the items I, as a child of 7, selected.   I keep all three in a safe place and seldom show them.
 
Also, you might be interested to know that the Wickliffe mansion, Wickland, in Bardstown, Ky, was built in 1815 and was the documented inspiration for Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home".  Mrs. Magee lived and died there after retiring and was moved back to Bogalusa for burial beside her husband after she died.  She was a school teacher, principal, and school superintendent in Bogalusa.
 
I have no doubt that the chair, after being saved from the fire, rested for a while at Wyoming before being taken to Wickland when Capt. John D. Wickliffe resigned his commission under the terms of a Confederate parole and returned to Bardstown.
 
Bob Lawrence