US Civil War Topic

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US Civil War Topic

By Craig Swain, August 7, 2008

Battery Ricketts Marker

201 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Woodland — Battery Ricketts — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —

Earthworks of Battery Ricketts are visible inside the wooded area in front of you. Battery Ricketts, built to defend an area in front of Fort Stanton, was named for Maj. Gen. James B. Ricketts. — — Map (db m10622) HM

202 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Bellevue — Fort Greble — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —

Earthworks of Fort Greble are visible beyond this exhibit. Fort Greble was named in honor of Lt. John T. Greble, slain at the Battle of Big Bethel, June 10, 1861, the first U.S. Military Academy graduate killed in the Civil War. — — Map (db m40866) HM

203 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Capitol Hill — Capitol Square, SW — Historical Information —

The Peace Monument By Franklin Simmons, 1878 The Peace Monument, also called the Naval Monument, was erected to commemorate the naval deaths at sea during the Civil War. At the top of the 44-foot monument, Grief, sometimes called . . . — — Map (db m110449) HM

204 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Capitol Hill — James A. Garfield —

(Front):James A. Garfield 1831 - 1881 (Left):Major General USV, Member of Congress, Senator and President of the United States of America. (Right):Erected by his comrades of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland May 12 . . . — — Map (db m18602) HM

205 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Capitol Hill — Ulysses S. Grant Memorial — National Mall and Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported missing

“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace,” General Ulysses S. Grant. Hiram Ulysses Grant, mistakenly listed as Ulysses Simpson . . . — — Map (db m29459) HM

206 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, East Potomac Park — Engineering a Landmark — Hains Point, National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported damaged

You stand on a part of the Potomac River once marred by unattractive, putrid mudflats. Hains Point forms just a part of the over 700-acre Potomac Park created in the 1880s from 12 million cubic yards of dredged river sediments. It is named for . . . — — Map (db m65660) HM

207 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Fort McNair — Building 20, Grant Hall —

In 1829, the Federal Penitentiary was built on this site. Designed by Charles Bulfinch, the Architect of the Capitol, the Penitentiary was influenced by the prison reform movement of the 1820s. In 1831, an eastern extension to the building added a . . . — — Map (db m64922) HM

208 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Fort McNair — General Ulysses S. Grant, USA —

General Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The future commanding general of all U. S. Armies during the Civil War, Grant graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1843, then was commissioned a Brevet 2nd . . . — — Map (db m169020) HM

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209 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Fort McNair — Lincoln Assassination Trial — Site of Lincoln Conspirators Gallows —

On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth (of Maryland) assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater in downtown Washington. Booth's conspirators were arrested and tried by a Military Court here in Building 20 from May 9 to June 30, 1865. One . . . — — Map (db m29740) HM

210 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Fort McNair — Women War Workers 1861 - 1865 —

During the Civil War the Washington Arsenal was both the largest Federal arsenal and the one closest for shipping its war materials to the various fighting fronts in Virginia. Here thousands of caissons and limbers, wagons and ambulances, cannon . . . — — Map (db m29739) HM

211 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Federal Center — The Slave Trade in Washington, DC —

"…in view from the windows of the Capitol, a sort of negro-livery stable, where droves of negroes were collected, temporarily kept, and finally taken to Southern markets …had been openly maintained for fifty years." Abraham . . . — — Map (db m129921) HM

212 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Abraham Lincoln —

During the Civil War, President Lincoln greeted troops upon arriving at the Southwest Waterfront, including Union Soldiers on their way to Fort Stevens to defend Washington from a Confederate Attack. — — Map (db m183749) HM

213 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Civil War —

New wharves and waterside warehouses were built along the Southwest Waterfront to accommodate military shipping needs of the Union Army, and thousands of soldiers arrived and departed from the waterfront. — — Map (db m204413) HM

214 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Civil War at the Southwest Waterfront —

Private river commerce along the waterfront was disrupted during the Civil War when Washington became the headquarters and supply center of the Union Army. Wharves were appropriated for military purposes, and Water Street was opened and paved for . . . — — Map (db m109367) HM

215 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Historic Water Street —

During the Civil War, Water Street was paved for military traffic leading from the gun and powder factory at the Arsenal on Greenleaf Point north along the waterfront to Long Bridge. — — Map (db m112448) HM

216 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Long Bridge —

Originally constructed in 1809 as a mile-long wooden toll bridge connecting the District with Virginia, Long Bridge has seen many transformations and additions. In 1861, five days after the fall of Fort Sumpter, Robert E. Lee rode south on Long . . . — — Map (db m109421) HM

217 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — 13 — Military Education at Fort McNair — River Farms to Urban Towers — Southwest Heritage Trail —

Fort Leslie J. McNair, to your right, honors the commander, Army Ground Forces during World War II who died in battle. It is the U.S. Army’s third oldest installation (after West Point and Carlisle Barracks). The fort dates back to 1791. . . . — — Map (db m130912) HM

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218 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — 12 — The Law House In Peace and War — River Farms to Urban Towers — Southwest Heritage Trail — Reported missing

To your left across Water Street is the Thomas Law House, now a community center for the Tiber Island cooperative. The Federal style house was designed by William Lovering in 1794 for businessman Thomas Law and his bride Eliza Parke Custis, . . . — — Map (db m130911) HM

219 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — The River Queen —

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant used this side-wheel steamer as his private dispatch boat, and it hosted the Hampton Roads Conference, President Lincoln's unsuccessful attempt to negotiate an end to the Civil War. — — Map (db m112443) HM

220 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Thomas Law House —

The "Honeymoon House" of Thomas Law and Eliza Parke Custis Law, Martha Washington's granddaughter. During the Civil War, it became the Mt. Vernon Hotel, where Lincoln greeted Union reinforcements in 1864. — — Map (db m211879) HM

221 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — T.S.C. Lowe's Observation Flight — AIAA Historic Aerospace Site —

On June 18, 1861, T.S.C. Lowe made a tethered observation flight with his gas-filled balloon Enterprise from a spot on the National Mall in front of where the National Air and Space Museum now stands. During this flight, he sent the first telegram . . . — — Map (db m140624) HM

222 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — John Ericsson — AD 1803 - AD 1889 — Vision • Adventure • Labor —

Inventor and builder of the Monitor. He revolutionized navigation by his invention of the screw propeller. — — Map (db m197475) HM WM

223 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — John Ericsson Memorial — National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

“I love this country. I love its people and its laws, and I would give my life for it just as soon as not.” John Ericsson.

Swedish-born John Ericsson revolutionized maritime navigation through the first . . . — — Map (db m17980) HM

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