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The Armory Square Hospital formally known as the District Armory or Armory of the District of Columbia was a military hospital for the Union Army located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., whic
View of the Mall in 1863 with the Armory and the Wards along with the Smithsonian Castle and the Canal.
View of the eastern side of the Mall in 1879. The Armory is the first square building on the right.
Patients in Ward K
During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, was the center of the Union war effort, which rapidly turned it from a small city into a major capital with full
President Abraham Lincoln insisted that construction of the United States Capitol continue during the American Civil War.
Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln beneath the unfinished dome of the United States Capitol on March 4, 1861
In the presidential booth of Ford's Theatre (from left to right) are: assassin John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Clara Harris, and Henry Rathbone