. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . ;^^^> /^ /Jl ,. COOPER SHOP VOLUNTEER REFRESHMENT SALOON. city, and was fortunate in getting a pass with permissionto be absent for several hours. Arthur Bingham, whowas a clerk in the quartermasters department, also se-cured a pass, and we started out together to see thesights. The B. & O. depot was at the foot of CapitolHill and rising away above us was the Capitol at this time was in a crude, unfinished con-dition, it was in fact, a city of magnificent distances. 34 IN WASHINGTON—LINCOLN VISITS CAMP I remember t
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . ;^^^> /^ /Jl ,. COOPER SHOP VOLUNTEER REFRESHMENT SALOON. city, and was fortunate in getting a pass with permissionto be absent for several hours. Arthur Bingham, whowas a clerk in the quartermasters department, also se-cured a pass, and we started out together to see thesights. The B. & O. depot was at the foot of CapitolHill and rising away above us was the Capitol at this time was in a crude, unfinished con-dition, it was in fact, a city of magnificent distances. 34 IN WASHINGTON—LINCOLN VISITS CAMP I remember that from the B. & O. depot we cimbed theembankment of sand and gravel up to the grounds of tlieCapitol. The Capitol building was grand and beautiful,beyond anything we had ever conceived of, although thenin an unfinished condition, the derrick at the top of theunfinished dome. We found our way through the building withoutdifficulty, although congress was not then in session therewas enough to be seen, everything was so new and grandto us. Finding our way to the
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