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President Abraham Lincoln insisted that construction of the United States Capitol continue during the American Civil War.. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, was the center of the Union war effort, which rapidly turned it from a small city into a major capital with full civic infrastructure and strong defenses.
An 1814 watercolor illustration of the United States Capitol after the burning of Washington during the ... from 75,000 in 1860 to 132,000 in 1870. ... Ghosts of DC ...
Georgetown, originally part of the state of Maryland, was the first populated place in Washington, D.C. The first newspapers appeared in Georgetown, which became an independently municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria (retroceeded to Virginia in 1846), [4] and the newly created County of Washington and County of ...
Washington DC: Printed by Kirkwood & McGill. ISBN 9781425540517 – via HathiTrust. Andrew Boyd, ed. (1860). Boyd's Washington and Georgetown Directory. Washington DC: Taylor and Maury – via Internet Archive. 1864
Celebration by "the colored people in Washington" of the fourth anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, April 19, 1866 [4] The drive to eliminate slavery in the District of Columbia was a major component in the anti-slavery campaign that led to the Civil War .
The historic cottage, built in the Gothic revival style, was constructed from 1842 to 1843 as the home of George Washington Riggs, who went on to establish the Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C. Lincoln lived in the cottage June to November 1862 through 1864 and during the first summer living there, Lincoln drafted the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Before the 1860 election, Republicans were excitedly predicting the end of slavery even in the south. [1] Republican President Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 led many in the South to conclude that now was the time for their long-discussed secession. Many pro-slavery southerners, especially in the Lower South, were convinced that the new ...
Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street in 1839 with the First Unitarian Church on the northeast corner of 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue visible in the background. Prior to the settlement of the area by European colonists, the Piscataway tribe of Native Americans occupied the northeastern banks of the Potomac River, although no permanent settlements are known in the area now encompassed by the ...