Its look is 18th century colonial. I generally like atmospheric dining, but the Dobbin House seemed a bit crowded, dark and worn. The menu is fairly standard but satisfactory. I had veal medallions, which were prepared decently but without any flair. Because the Tannery is so convenient to the battlefield park, you can get there early before the crowds begin to show up.
Many visitors make the full auto tour, which takes at least a couple of hours.
But I've found it is more satisfying to limit the driving and walk one or more of the park's trails. You can more readily pretend you are a Union or Confederate trooper, standing the same ground they once did. How terribly frightened they must have been at the awful prospect around them. Battlefield parks are inviting places for a quiet getaway, as I said at the outset, but you shouldn't go away without absorbing at least one disturbing lesson that comes clear in all of the Civil War battlefields. For all the tales of valor, the war for the combatants was always brutal and often deadly.