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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDL8_the-civil-war-defenses-of-washington_Washington-DC.html
The site of this fort was selected in August, 1861. First called Fort Pennsylvania, the fort was located at an elevation of 430 feet, commanding three important roads which entered the city from the northwest in the vicinity of what is now Wiscons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDL7_fort-reno_Washington-DC.html
No visible evidence remains of Fort Reno, which stood at the top of this hill, the highest elevation in Washington, D.C.
[drawing of Fort Reno] Fort Reno from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing. Cannon mounted at Fort Reno helped repulse a Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDL6_fort-reno_Washington-DC.html
At an elevation of 410 feet, Fort Reno is located at the highest point in DC. The fort, originally named Fort Pennsylvania, was well situated to provide defense of the Nation's Capital during the Civil War as one of the Circle of Forts (pictured h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC7K_james-a-garfield_Washington-DC.html
(Front):James A. Garfield1831 - 1881(Left):Major General USV,Member of Congress,SenatorandPresidentof theUnited StatesofAmerica.(Right):Erectedby his comradesof theSociety of the Armyof theCumberlandMay 12 1887.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC7F_ulysses-s-grant-memorial_Washington-DC.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC7C_naval-monument_Washington-DC.html
In memory of theofficers seamen and marinesof the United States Navywho fell in defence of theunion and liberty of their country1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBPD_john-wesley_Washington-DC.html
. . . being an exact copy of the statue standing in the forecourt of Wesley's Chapel, Bristol, England, presented by the Right Hon. the Lord Rank on behalf of the Methodist Church, Great Britain, to the Wesley Theological Seminary. In token of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255_battery-kemble-park_Washington-DC.html
Built in the autumn of 1861 and enlarged in 1862, the battery was named for Gouveneur Kemble of Cold Spring, NY, a former superintendent of the West Point Foundry. The battery, which consisted of two 100-pound Parrott guns, was designed to sweep t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M5_chain-bridge_Washington-DC.html
In 1797, the merchants of Georgetown built here the first bridge over the Potomac River in order to compete with the Virginia port of Alexandria. The Falls Bridge allowed trade from the "upper country" of Virginia to move directly to Georgetown ov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5B_fort-bayard_Washington-MD.html
Civil War Defenses of Washington 1861-1865. No visible evidence remains of Fort Bayard, which stood at the top of this hill. Named for Brig. Gen. George Bayard, mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862.