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Home / Regional / North America / United States / Washington, DC / Society and Culture / History / Civil War
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Web Sites
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- Civil War Defenses - Describes the system of forts defending the city during the Civil War. Official National Park Service site.
www.nps.gov/rocr/ftcircle
- Insiders' Guide: Civil War, Washington - Walking tour of local historic sites associated with the Civil War.
www.insiders.com/civil/tour13.htm
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers - Greenhow, a leader in Washington society, was also one of the most celebrated Confederate spies in the Civil War. Site has letters and news clippings from the collections of Duke University, plus historical background information.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow, 1814-1864: My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington - In this 1863 autobiography, the Washington, D.C., socialite and Confederate spy told her story and gave her view of contemporary events. Full text (352 pages). A volume in Documenting the American South, a series of electronic text reprints.
docsouth.unc.edu/greenhow/menu.html
- Virginia Lomax, b. 1831: The Old Capitol and Its Inmates - 1867 first-person account of life in the Old Capitol Prison and Carrol Prison, which housed prisoners during the Civil War. Full text (226 pages). A volume in Documenting the American South, a series of electronic text reprints.
docsouth.unc.edu/lomax/menu.html
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