In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs.
Sprigg s boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House,
Mrs. Sprigg s hosted lively dinner-table debates of antislavery
politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid
turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent
escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the
underground railroad. These early years in Washington proved
formative for Lincoln.
In 1861, now in the White House, Lincoln could gaze out his
office window and see the Confederate flag flying across the
Potomac. Washington, DC, sat on the front lines of the Civil War.
Vulnerable and insecure, the capital was rife with Confederate
sympathizers. On the crossroads of slavery and freedom, the city
was a refuge for thousands of contraband and fugitive slaves. The
Lincoln administration took strict measures to tighten security and
established camps to provide food, shelter, and medical care for
contrabands. In 1863, a Freedman s Village rose on the grounds of
the Lee estate, where the Confederate flag once flew.
The president and Mrs. Lincoln personally comforted the wounded
troops who flooded wartime Washington. In 1862, Lincoln spent July
4 riding in a train of ambulances carrying casualties from the
Peninsula Campaign to Washington hospitals. He saluted the
One-Legged Brigade assembled outside the White House as orators,
their wounds eloquent expressions of sacrifice and dedication. The
administration built more than one hundred military hospitals to
care for Union casualties.
These are among the unforgettable scenes in Lincoln s Citadel, a
fresh, absorbing narrative history of Lincoln s leadership in Civil
War Washington. Here is the vivid story of how the Lincoln
administration met the immense challenges the war posed to the
city, transforming a vulnerable capital into a bastion for the
Union."
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