The men who built Fort Runyon and were garrisoned there typified the soldiers of the Union Army. Their ranks were drawn from militia and all-volunteer regiments organized by the states and mustered into national service. They arrived in camp in an array of homemade uniforms, often carrying outdated weapons, and with little or no military training. What began as a rag-tag group became an effective fighting force. Upwards of 10,000 Union soldiers occupied fort in present-day Arlington, safeguard Washington from direct attach throughout the war.
Section of Fort Runyon, Va., guarding the road to Alexandria, occupied by the Twenty-first Regiment, New York Volunteers, August 1861, from Frank Leslie's Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War, 1861 - 1865.
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