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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 ...
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 1865 map of American Civil War defenses of the national capital of Washington, D.C., including forts, roads, and railroads Fort Stevens in 2006 Battleground National Cemetery The 1865 map shows the following fortifications, some of which no longer exist.
Public Law 95-260 was passed by Congress in 1978 to create a memorial to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town. It was dedicated on ...
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 ...
George Washington Memorial Parkway, authorized by Congress 1930, first section opened 1932; George Washington National Forest, western Virginia and eastern West Virginia. Established as Shenandoah National Forest (1918). Name changed to honor George Washington (1932). Natural Bridge National Forest added (1933).
Fort Ethan Allen was an earthwork fortification that the Union Army built in 1861 on the property of Gilbert Vanderwerken in Alexandria County (now Arlington County), Virginia, as part of the Civil War defenses of Washington (see Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War). The remains of the fort are now within Arlington County's Fort Ethan ...
Fort Worth was a timber and earthwork fortification constructed west of Alexandria, Virginia as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War.. Built in the weeks following the Union defeat at Bull Run, Fort Worth was situated on a hill north of Hunting Creek, and Cameron Run, (which feeds into it).