. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . AMiERE LINCOLN WAS UNDER FIRE This is Fort Stevens (originally known as Fort Massachusetts), north of Washington, near the SoldiersHome, where President Lincoln had his summer residence. It was to this outpost that Earlys troopsadvanced on July 12, 1864. In the fighting of that day Lincoln himself stood on the ramparts, and asurgeon who stood by his side was wounded. These works were feebly garrisoned, and General Gordondeclared in his memoirs that when the Confederate troops reached Fort Stevens they found it jjhot
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . AMiERE LINCOLN WAS UNDER FIRE This is Fort Stevens (originally known as Fort Massachusetts), north of Washington, near the SoldiersHome, where President Lincoln had his summer residence. It was to this outpost that Earlys troopsadvanced on July 12, 1864. In the fighting of that day Lincoln himself stood on the ramparts, and asurgeon who stood by his side was wounded. These works were feebly garrisoned, and General Gordondeclared in his memoirs that when the Confederate troops reached Fort Stevens they found it jjhotograph was taken after the occupation of the fort by Company F of the Third i)^ ICast Ol0utots in tl|? f>l|atmtboal} ^ General Torbert sweeping up the road, driving the Confed-erate troopers before them. The surprised mass was pressedinto its own Hnes. The infantry was charged and many pris-oners and battle-flags captured. The sun Mas now sinking upon the horizon, and on theascending slopes in the direction of the
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