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    A CAPITAL DEFENSE

    Jul 24, 2018 3 minutes
    –Kim O’Connell

    WASHINGTON, D.C.

    , Washington, D.C., was vulnerable from nearly all sides. The only major fortification was Fort Washington, an early 19th-century brick and stone structure located on the Potomac River 12 miles to the south (now a national park site). When the war began, President Lincoln moved quickly to buttress the lightly defended capital. By the summer of 1861, Union troops had occupied the high bluffs and hills on the river’s Virginia side to develop a system of fortifications, under the direction of the U.S. Army Chief Engineer John G. Barnard, that would encircle the.

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