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Photographer: Tom Fuchs
Taken: January 28, 2006
Caption: Confederate Raid on Washington Mural
Additional Description: The plaque beneath the mural reads:
    Washington, D.C. was raided in 1864 by 14,000 Confederate troops led by General Jubal Early. Skirmishes took place in Silver Spring and Washington, with the attack finally being stopped at Fort Stevens—just a few miles south of this site. Seventeen of the Confederate soldiers killed in this battle are buries at Grace Episcopal Church on Georgia Avenue.
   The Confederate officers under General Early made their headquarters at the Blair residence, "Silver Spring", which was ransacked. The nearby home of Montgomery Blair, then Postmaster General of the United States, was burned to the ground.
Submitted: February 5, 2006, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p216
File Size: 2.697 Megabytes

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