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Map of Civil War forts near Alexandria, showing Fort Ward (ca. September 1861) Washington D.C. Fortifications map (1865) Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and ...
Fort Ward in Alexandria, Virginia, was named in honor of Commander Ward. Fort Ward, which was one of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, was completed in September 1861. The fort has been largely restored and serves as a museum and historic park. [20]
Fort Beauregard (Virginia) Fort Craig (Virginia) Fort Ellsworth; Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia) Fort Evans; Fort Harrison; Fort Huger; Fort Jackson (Virginia) Fort Lyon (Virginia) Fort Marcy (Virginia) Fort Marrow; Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches; Fort Reynolds (Virginia) Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia) Fort Runyon; Fort ...
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (6 P) Pages in category "American Civil War museums in Virginia" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
First Blood: Fort Sumter to Bull Run. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1983. ISBN 0-8094-4704-5. Ellsworth, Elmer E. (1861). Complete instructions for the recruit in the light infantry drill: as adapted to the use of the rifled musket, and arranged for the United States Zouave cadets. Cornell University Library. p. 76 pages. ISBN 1-4297 ...
1865 map showing Fort Craig and nearby fortifications on the Arlington Line. The Arlington Line was a series of fortifications that the Union Army erected in Alexandria County (now Arlington County), Virginia, to protect the City of Washington during the American Civil War (see Civil War Defenses of Washington and Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War).
The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led troops into ...
Marshall House with the flag pole visible on the roof. The death of Col. Ellsworth at the Marshall House, as depicted in a Currier and Ives engraving, 1861. The Marshall House was an inn that stood at 480 King Street (near the southeast corner of King Street and South Pitt Street) in Alexandria, Virginia.