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A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.: The Capital of the Union (Civil War Series)

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When the primary shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, D.C., was once a small, essentially Southern city. The capital unexpectedly transformed as it prepared for invasion–army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom, the Navy Yard on Anacostia was once a beehive of activity or even the Capitol was once pressed into service as a barracks. Local citizens and government officials struggled to house the fugitive slaves and troops that crowded into the city. From the tale of some of the first African American army surgeons, Dr. Alexander Augusta, to the tireless efforts of Clara Barton, historian Lucinda Prout Janke renders an intimate portrait of a community at the front lines of war. Sign up for Janke as she guides readers in the course of the changing landscape of a capital besieged.

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