This guide to 80 sites in the capital uses wartime photos and drawings to evoke life in the city between 1861 and 1865. Readers can foray back in time while enjoying a modern, thriving city at the same time.
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Enhanced with 15 maps and 130 historical photographs,
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This review is from: Mr. Lincoln's City: An Illustrated Guide to the Civil War Sites of Washington (Paperback)
Mr. Lincoln's City: An Illustrated Guide To The Civil War Sites Of Washington by U.S. Army Major General Richard M. Lee (Retired) is enhanced with 15 maps and 130 historical photographs as it offers the reader a series of major tours throughout downtown Washington, DC, to 80 sites that were significant to the events occurring between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War. There were a total of 68 forts encircling Washington, which the Union forces utilized as a major war base with its rail net and staging areas. This proved critically important as Confederate forces approached the city when the great battles took place in neighboring Virginia to the detriment of the Union Army. Here land marked for the onsite visitor as well as the armchair traveler are the Washington Monument slaughterhouse, the fetid creeks and canals, the sick, the wounded and the dying lying in hospitals strewn across the city. This is also the place where President Lincoln brought his forces to final victory, preserved the union, and resulted in Washington becoming the premier city of a reunited republic -- an unassailable position it has held down to the present day. Mr. Lincoln's City is an enthusiastically recommended addition to American History and Civil War History reference collections, as well as an ideal resource for planning a Civil War oriented tour of Washington, DC.
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In April of 1861 the nation's capital was a bare start on the grand design of the founding fathers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Pennsylvania Avenue, White House, President Lincoln, Seventh Street, Bull Run, New York, Navy Yard, Union Army, Constitution Avenue, Seventeenth Street, Fifteenth Street, Union Station, Library of Congress, Walt Whitman, Long Bridge, United States, Fort Stevens, Potomac River, Sixth Street, Patent Office, Tenth Street, Army of the Potomac, General Grant, John Wilkes Booth, First Street New!
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In April of 1861 the nation's capital was a bare start on the grand design of the founding fathers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
city canal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pennsylvania Avenue, White House, President Lincoln, Seventh Street, Bull Run, New York, Navy Yard, Union Army, Constitution Avenue, Seventeenth Street, Fifteenth Street, Union Station, Library of Congress, Walt Whitman, Long Bridge, United States, Fort Stevens, Potomac River, Sixth Street, Patent Office, Tenth Street, Army of the Potomac, General Grant, John Wilkes Booth, First Street New!
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- Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. by Kathryn Allamong Jacob on page 3
- The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove on page 462
- Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital (Crown Journeys) by Christopher Buckley in Back Matter
- Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove on page 426
- Following in Lincoln's Footsteps: A Complete Annotated Reference to Hundreds of Historical Sites Visited by Abraham Lincoln (Illinois) by Ralph V. Gary in Back Matter
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