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Freedom's Cap - The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War (Paperback)
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Freedom's Cap - The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War (Paperback)
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List price R627
Loot Price R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
You Save R90 (14%)
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The history of the modern U.S. Capitol, the iconic seat of American
government, is also the history of America's most tumultuous years.
As the majestic new building rose above Washington's skyline,
battles over slavery and secession ripped the country apart. Ground
was broken just months after Congress adopted the Compromise of
1850. Workers began to bolt the Capitol's nine-million-pound
cast-iron dome into place in 1856. The Statue of Freedom was placed
atop it in 1863, five months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Little
known is the greater irony: America owes the building's scale and
magnificence to Jefferson Davis, who remained the Capitol's
staunchest advocate up until the week he left Washington to become
president of the Confederacy. Davis' protege and the engineer in
charge was army captain Montgomery Meigs, who as Lincoln's
quartermaster general of the Union Army would never forgive Davis'
betrayal of the nation. The Capitol's brilliant architect, and
Meigs' longtime rival, was Thomas U. Walter, a Southern sympathizer
who would turn fiercely against the South and all who had betrayed
the Union.
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