The National tribune., 1902-08-28
HISTORIC WASHINGTON.
Places You Will wish to See-old Capitol
Prison, Navy-Yard ard BARRACKS - hoW
These VIII Be Marked.

Washington is one of the very important
pieces of work now being pushed by the
Executive Committee. y special commit
tee was appointed for this purpose, and
the members have been industriously at
work ever since, seeking out the places
that have a peculiar interest for the sol
diers who camped in and about Washing
ton during the war of the rebellion. The
hospitals, rest rooms, military prisons,
guard-houses. headquarters of the various
Generals. the detention camps, and every
thing in any way connected with the con-
gregatiOn in Washington of bodies of sol
diers will be plainly marked. The COM
mittee will go further and mark those
places noted in the early history of the
CAPITAL. the homes of the Presidents, and
the spots where the old Departments of
the Government held forth. As the plans
to do this have been sent broadcast
through the country, many letters have
come to the committee from old soldiers
who remembered historic spots, that
might have been neglected otherwise. The
unger generation have not much ven
Grafton for and very little knowledge of
these places.
There will be plain marker in shield
shape, in which will be a number. In a
small booklet, which will be of handy size,
will be a corresponding number, and be-
side it description of the places so
lent one. The places selected for mark
ing are as follows:
G street northwest Epiphany Church,
This church was frequently used as
hospital.
junction of H street and New York
avenue (New York Avenue Presbyterian
Churchl-In this church President Lin
coin worshiped.
Corner of II and Sixteenth streets (St.
Johns Church)-In this church Gen.
Scott, Gen. Mcclellan and President A
thur worshiped. 1t was used as a hos
pital after the battle of Bull Run.
Capitol, Senate Chamber-First quar-
tiers of the 9Th Mass.
Capitol, House Of Representatives.
First quarters of the It'll n. Y.
United States Navy Yard-The list n.
Y. was quartered here.
White Lot, just south of the old Navy
Department-Site of the Wisewell Bar
racks.
Baltimore & Ohio Station fright hand
side of train shed, going east-Site of Sol
diers' Rest, where arriving troops were
halted.
Farragut Square-Here were stationed
Magruder's and Griffin's Batteries.
Franklin SGuare-Here was the camp
of the 10Th Md
Winder BuiIding-Here were quartered
the Sappers and Miners from West Point.
Graceland Cemetery, east of Maryland
ayenue-Camp Berry, where were sta
toned the early volunteer troops.
Head of Thirteenth street extended,
Meridian Hill-Camp Cameron, where
the 9Th n. Y. was encamped.
Howard University, Meridian Hill
Camp Relief, where the 18th n. Y. Cav,
known as "Scott's 900" were encamped.
Camp Marshall-Where were stationed
early volunteer troops.
Arsenal Grounds-These grounds were
used for drilling and other military pur-
poses.
Arsenal Grounds ION south wall Of
power-house,-The United States Engi-
neer Battalion was quartered in building
upon this site from November, 1861, TO
March. 1862. The battalion encamped
upon the adjoining grounds Sept. to Z,
1862.
Corner A and First streets northeast
Site of the Capitol Prison.
Sixth street, on the Mall Fish Com
mission)-The Armory, where were stored
the arms and ammunition with which the
troops of the District were armed for
three months service in 1861.
Ford's Theater-Tenth street northwest
I'm this building President Lincoln was
assassinated.
SIG Tenth street northwest-In this
house President Lincoln died.
The Raleigh, corner Twelfth street and
Pennsylvania avenue-The site of the
Kirkwood House, where President John
son was sworn in.
The New Willard, corner Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue-Site of
the old Willard, where President Lincoln
stopped on his arrival in Washington in
1861, and where Grant stopped when
made Northumberland.
1927 X street NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
Secretary Stanton
Corner II street and Madison place
northwest-This house. once the home of
Dolly Madison, was the headquarters of
Gen. Mcclellan.
Corner Pennsylvania avenue and Mad
ison place nOrthwest-The site of the
headquarters of the Department of Wash
ington.
Lafayette Square. fronting on the Ave
nue., and Immediately opposite the White
House-Site of the reviewing stand in
front of which passed the Armies of the
United States.
Corner Jackson Place and II street
The home of Commodore Stephen Deca-
tur, U. S. n.
War Department Building, north front
Site of old War Department
War Department, center wing-Site OF
old Navy Department
Corner Seventeenth street and Rhode
Island ayenue-The home of Gen. Sheri-
dan.
Seventeenth and / streets northwest
Farragut Apartment House)-The site
of the house of Gen. Macomb. once Com
mander-in- Chief of the United States
Army.
Corner Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
yania avenue NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
Gen. Mansfield.
Corner of Seventeenth and + streets
Headquarters of Gen. Halleck and after
ward of Gen. Grant.
Seventeenth street. near G northwest
This building was the headquarters Of
Gen. Scott.
Foot of Seventeenth street southwest
The residence of Gen. Van Ness, who
married the daughter of Davy Burns, the
original owner of the grounds on which
the White House. Treasury, and State,
War and Navy Department buildings
stand.
Corner Eighteenth street and New York
avenue (Octagon House)-Residence of
President Madison after burning of the
White House by the British in 1914.
Corner Eighteenth ard G streets-Office
OF Depot Quartermaster for supplying the
Army of the Potomac.
Corner Nineteenth and / streets north
west-Provost Marshal Generals Office,
Department of Washington.
1856 Thirty street Forrest HalD
Used as a military prison.
PLACES TO VISIT.
Eow to Spend an Interesting Week in Wash
ingtcn.