The Mathew Brady Memorial

At Congressional Cemetery.

Baseball at Camp Doubleday

 Head Quarters, 76th Regt. N.Y.S.V.

Camp Doubleday

The Old Brick Capitol

Henry Halleck's House

3238 R Street, Washington, DC

A Monument To the Lost Cause

 

The Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Confederate Monument in Rockville

The Confederate Monument in Rockville, the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, was erected on June 3, 1913 (Confederate Memorial Day (Jefferson Davis' Birthday)), in a small park in the middle of Montgomery Avenue.

Columbian Harmony Cemetery

The Rhode Island Metro Station in Northeast Washington is the former site of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery, the final resting place for many important 19th Century African Americans, including two Medal of Honor winners. The headstones and locations of the graves were lost in 1960.

Wesley Breese

New Yorker C. Wesley Breese left three monuments of his Civil War service.

Margaret Toogood

The Last Slave in Maryland

Ishmael Day

From Between The Lines by H.B. Smith, 1911

Barbara Fritchie with a Shotgun: Like fellow elderly Marylander Barbara Fritchie, Ishmael Day became famous for defending the flag from rebel invaders during the Civil War. But Day differs from Fritchie in several respects. Barbara Fritchie probably didn't do what she is famous for doing, and Day used a shotgun. Day was also a veteran of the War of 1812.

A Civil War Love Story

She was a Confederate Heroine, He was a Union Officer;

Ford Building, 3977 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax

  Together They Found a Separate Peace.

Wheeling was the Capital of Virginia

Sic Semper Tyrannis -- Liberty and Union

During the Civil War, the capital of Virginia was the city of Wheeling in the northern panhandle of what is now West Virginia.

Cedar Hill

Frederick Douglass' Home  on W Street in Anacostia, DC
 

General Sickles' Leg

At the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Col. Dahlgren's Leg

At the Washington Navy Yard

Within This Wall Is Deposited The Leg of Col. Ulric Dahlgren U.S.V. Wounded July 6th 1863 While Skirmishing In The Streets of Hagerstown With The Rebels After The Battle of Gettysburgh

Grief: The Arsenal Fire of 1864

Lot Flannery's statue of "Grief" atop the Arsenal Fire Monument
at Congressional Cemetery

The Empty Tomb and the Lost Monument

Gathland State Park, on the top of South Mountain near Burkittsville, Maryland
 

The Gin Riot, Rodgers' Bastion and the Downward Dog

Yogists display their posteriors at Rodgers' Bastion in Patterson Park, Baltimore 

Antiques, Civil Rights, Civil War, and Religious Freedom

Four centuries at the Northeast Corner of Caroline and William Streets, Fredericksburg Virginia

R&R Antiques occupies the Woolworth building where sit-ins took place in 1960, and sits on the site of Weedon's Tavern where, in 1777, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and others met to launch the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom. In 1862, Union artillery from nearby Chatham destroyed the Bank of Virginia building on this corner.

Mary Hall: The Madam on the Mall

 Mary Ann Hall ran the largest whorehouse in Washington, DC, during the Civil War.