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Languages : en
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Registry of Civil War veterans buried in the St. Elizabeth's Hospital cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Burials of Some Civil War Soldiers at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.
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Languages : en
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Registry of Civil War veterans buried in the St. Elizabeth's Hospital cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Burials of Some Civil War Soldiers at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.
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Registry of Civil War veterans buried in the St. Elizabeth's Hospital cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Burials of Some Civil War Soldiers at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.
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Presentation slides about the Civil War veterans buried in the St. Elizabeth's Hospital cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC
Author: Kenneth J. WinklePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393240576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom. In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg’s boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg’s hosted lively dinner-table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in Washington proved formative for Lincoln. In 1861, now in the White House, Lincoln could gaze out his office window and see the Confederate flag flying across the Potomac. Washington, DC, sat on the front lines of the Civil War. Vulnerable and insecure, the capital was rife with Confederate sympathizers. On the crossroads of slavery and freedom, the city was a refuge for thousands of contraband and fugitive slaves. The Lincoln administration took strict measures to tighten security and established camps to provide food, shelter, and medical care for contrabands. In 1863, a Freedman’s Village rose on the grounds of the Lee estate, where the Confederate flag once flew. The president and Mrs. Lincoln personally comforted the wounded troops who flooded wartime Washington. In 1862, Lincoln spent July 4 riding in a train of ambulances carrying casualties from the Peninsula Campaign to Washington hospitals. He saluted the “One-Legged Brigade” assembled outside the White House as “orators,” their wounds eloquent expressions of sacrifice and dedication. The administration built more than one hundred military hospitals to care for Union casualties. These are among the unforgettable scenes in Lincoln’s Citadel, a fresh, absorbing narrative history of Lincoln’s leadership in Civil War Washington. Here is the vivid story of how the Lincoln administration met the immense challenges the war posed to the city, transforming a vulnerable capital into a bastion for the Union.
A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.
Author: Lucinda Prout JankePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614238847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An in-depth account of the Civil War people and events that left their mark on the city at the heart of the Union, shaping its historic legacy. When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, DC, was a small, essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it prepared for invasion—army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom, the Navy Yard on Anacostia was a beehive of activity, and even the Capitol was pressed into service as a barracks. Local citizens and government officials struggled to accommodate the fugitive slaves and troops that crowded into the city. From the story of one of the first African American army surgeons, Dr. Alexander Augusta to the tireless efforts of Clara Barton, historian Lucinda Prout Janke renders an intimate portrait of a community on the front lines of war. Join Janke as she guides readers through the changing landscape of a capital besieged. Includes photos!
ADAMHA News
Author: Prologue
Author: War Department Civil Functions Appropriation Bill for 1947
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1452
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Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Division of Central AccountsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1878
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