Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Devry Becker Jones (CC0)
Taken: December 24, 2019
Caption: Signage on the perimeter of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Additional Description: A Civil War Turning Point
On July 11, 1864, Confederate troops led by General Jubal Early attempted to enter the city, but were turned back by Union troops on the land that later became Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Submitted: December 24, 2019, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p505936
File Size: 6.315 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.