president will say, mary would not make a very good soldier, as she swooned. so while the president has been under fire, a man has been shot near him, and by 4:00, the 6th corps is ready to take the offensive. and they will move out from in front of fort stevens, moving across the ground that slopes down to where walter reid is now, beyond battleground cemetery, where 40-odd men of the union soldiers who were killed here are buried and the union troops and the confederates pulled back. lincoln will not take his eye off the big picture. tuesday is the 12th. on the 14th, he is back out at the taking care of business. so he is going to do, and i want you to play another little tune there, because he s going to sign a bill calling for 500,000 more men. and there s one of the tunes in that, we are coming father abraham, 500,000 more. so he s showing his commitment to continuing the war. he s also curtailed negotiations carried out through on the same day with mr. blair, through
you can read faster than i can talk so i won t read the slides. i want you to see beautiful places i love. they are history and parks and recreation and national resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. so there we start. as frank said the city was unprotected down below. this is fort washington. if you haven t been there, you should go. it s quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. after bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulnerable. that s when he ordered director major general john g. barnard to design forts around the city to protect it. here they are. these are the ones available there. it was quite an amazing feat to build all those. it was just tremendous. here they are there. i ve circled them here on this old map, the ones that are under government ownership today. the park service owns all the ones in washington, d.c. and one in maryland and one in virginia. the ones in virginia are owned by lo
for years nobody believed it. the confederate soldiers themselves claimed to see the dome of the capital. that s hock um. there s nowhere to see the dome of the capital. you can see it s below where visual would have gotten it out in silver spring. probably saw the lights of georgetown. but mccauslin had gotten up there. there s claims to ride up in broad daylight. no substantiating that. old soldiers have vivid memories. one little comment, not a question. i was a surveyor in washington, d.c. for 42 years. in our office we had 1880 i think u.s. gs topographic maps. first put out by the city and government and fortifications still on there. cool set of maps. if you haven t seen them, library of congress i think has them. thanks. with that i d like to again thank the national archives for hosting this really wonderful event. our speakers, please join me one last time in a round of applause for them. union forces tried to create a gap in the forces but the attack failed