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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: August 4, 2007
Caption: A Near Duplicate, to the Left of the Marker on the Fence
Additional Description: The Blair House
Erected 1824
1836 Home of
Francis Preston Blair
editor of Globe
also of
Montgomery Blair
Attorney for Dred Scott
Postmaster General
in the cabinet of
Abraham Lincoln

Occupied by
George Bancroft Historian

General Robert E. Lee
was here offered command
of the Union army in the
field at the instance of
Abraham Lincoln
Submitted: December 8, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p11544
File Size: 1.430 Megabytes

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