. Book of the Royal blue . rty ofGeneral Beale, and was the centerof much social life; General Grantwas fre<iuently entertained hereafter his Presidential term the corner of ConnecticutAvenue and H Street is the Cor-coran House, originally built forand presented to Daniel Websterby some of his admirers. Foryears it was the residence of , the banker and philan-thropist. During the civil warMr. Corcoran was well known as asympathizer with the South, and at onetime arranged to close his house and go toEurope to remain until peace had Stanton ordered the

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. Book of the Royal blue . rty ofGeneral Beale, and was the centerof much social life; General Grantwas fre<iuently entertained hereafter his Presidential term the corner of ConnecticutAvenue and H Street is the Cor-coran House, originally built forand presented to Daniel Websterby some of his admirers. Foryears it was the residence of , the banker and philan-thropist. During the civil warMr. Corcoran was well known as asympathizer with the South, and at onetime arranged to close his house and go toEurope to remain until peace had Stanton ordered the property tobe t;iken and used as a hospital, but hearing of it asked the FrenchMinister to occupy it at once, and in a few-hours the tricolor floating from the windowproclaimed that it was for the time Frenchterritory, and Stanton was compelled torescind his order. Secretary Stanton wasnot troubled with scruples about seizing theproperty of those not in sympathy with theUnion cause. It is said that once a com-.

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