Identifier: historyofamerica03drap (find matches)
Title: History of the American Civil War
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Draper, John William, 1811-1882
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery Slaves
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ses of Earlys sortie by any detailed statement re-washmgton. Specting the fortifications of Washington.Although his advance to them and his subsequent retreatsuggested a description of those works, I preferred post-poning it to this opportunity. The problem of surrounding Washington with fortifica-tions came up at the outbreak of the war. Such officersof the Corps of Engineers as could be most readily with-drawn from other duties were summoned to that city andplaced under the orders of General J. G. Barnard, chief en-gineer on the staff of General Mansfield, and subsequentlyof Generals McDowell and McClellan. Commencing with the few works thrown up when thenational troops crossed the Potomac and seized Alex-andria and the Heights of Arlington, the system of de-fenses now to be described was constructed mainly underthe direction of the engineer officer named. Associatedwith him during a portion of the time, and taking an im-portant part in the work, were Generals Woodbury andAlexander.
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THE DEFENSES OF WASHINGTON.

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