Pointless Prize: Civil War History

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Benvenue (McLean, VA) was an estate occupied by the Army of the Potomac and used as a field hospital.

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Buchanan Street (McLean, VA)

Franklin Buchanan was an officer in the US Navy. He submitted plans to the US Secretary of the Navy for a naval school and served as the first Superintendent of what became the US Naval Academy. The Superintendent’s quarters at USNA is the Buchanan House.
During the Civil War he resigned and became the only full admiral of the Confederate Navy. He commanded the CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the USS Merrimack), the first steam-powered ironclad warship.

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Buchanan Street (McLean, VA)

Franklin Buchanan was an officer in the US Navy. He submitted plans to the US Secretary of the Navy for a naval school and served as the first Superintendent of what became the US Naval Academy. The Superintendent’s quarters at USNA is the Buchanan House.
During the Civil War he resigned and became the only full admiral of the Confederate Navy. He commanded the CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the USS Merrimack), the first steam-powered ironclad warship.

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Wow! Great detail!

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Parker Avenue (Falls Church, VA)

Ely Samuel Parker was a Tonawanda Seneca US Army officer, attorney, engineer and tribal diplomat. He served as adjutant and secretary to General Grant, wrote the final draft of the surrender documents of Robert E. Lee and was present during the signing. Grant, as president, appointed him as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first native American to hold the post.

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Ninth District Provost Marshal’s Office, 677 3rd Ave, location of the first confrontation of the New York Draft Riots, July 13, 1863. Various sites have this as low as E 42nd or as high as E 47th. There is no longer a 677, the Bank Of America Building at 675 3rd Ave takes up the entire block from E 42nd to E 43rd. I haven’t found any Civil War Markers on any of the NYC sites.

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Andrew Offutt, from Kentucky, was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and served with General William T. Sherman.

Offutt Drive (Falls Church, VA)
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Wren-Darne historic home & cemetery in the Dominion Heights hood around the corner from my home.

Col. James Wren, John Wren, Robert Darne and John Darne. These men served in three wars — the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.

https://wrendarnecemetery.org/

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Admiral William Buehler served with distinction through the Civil War. He was chief engineer of the U.S.S. Aroostook, in 1861-1862 and of the U.S.S. Galena, 1863-1865. He was present and took part in the attacks on James River and Fort Darling.

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P.S. Beth. If you think this is stretching it a bit, I will gladly remove the hashtag.

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Hugh Weedon Mercer was a general for the Confederate Army. Although third in his class, he almost did not graduate from the US Military Academy at West Point because of his participation in the Eggnog Riot* of 1826. President John Quincy Adams pardoned him. After military service in Georgia he resigned his commission and stayed in Georgia. At age 53, he joined the Confederate Army as a colonel and quickly rose to the rank of brigadier general.

*The Eggnog Riot occurred on Christmas 1826 when whiskey was smuggled into the barracks. More than one third of the cadets were involved and 20 were court-martialed. Among the participants was Jefferson Davis (future president of the Confederate States) and John Archibald Campbell (future justice on the US Supreme Court).

Mercer Lane (McLean, VA)
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Fort Lincoln Cemetery

Fort Lincoln was one of seven temporary earthwork forts part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, DC during the Civil War built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army.

In 1861, after the bombardment of Fort Sumter (the beginning of the Civil War), the property was seized by the United States Government for the location of Battery Jameson (named for Brig. Gen. Charles D. Jameson).

The remains of Battery Jameson are still visible near the old spring house. President Abraham Lincoln is said to have met here to discuss army strategy. The battery served to reinforce Fort Lincoln which was located a short distance away in the District of Columbia.

Fort Lincoln Cemetery was named after Fort Lincoln which strategically protected the nation’s capitol during the Civil War. Fort Lincoln became the headquarters for the Second Pennsylvania Veteran Heavy Artillery. Men from this unit staffed Battery Jameson.

It was too dark to go into the cemetery to find the historical marker, so I just have a picture of the front entrance.

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Betty Duvall was a Confederate spy during the Civil War. In her most noted mission she passed information, hidden in her hair, about Union plans for the first Battle of Manassas to General Beauregard. She was from a very prominent DC family* and her gravesite is in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, DC.

* The Duvall family, dating to 1625 in France, has ancestors that include Harry S. Truman, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Wallis Simpson, Warren Buffett and Robert Duvall.

Duvall Court in Washington DC.
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Horatio Gates Gibson was a colonel in the Union Army. He graduated 17th in his class at the US Military Academy at West Point.
During his 90s he was known to smoke from six to ten cigars a day.

Gison Street (Falls Church, VA)
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President Abraham Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War.
He never slept in the White House’s “Lincoln Bedroom”; that room was his personal office.

Lincoln Way (Tysons, VA)
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Alexandria National Cemetery

Alexandria was one of the principal campsites for Union soldiers sent to defend Washington, D.C., at the outbreak of the Civil War. These troops, composed primarily of “three-month volunteers,” were unprepared for the demands of war. When they tried to turn the Southern advance at Bull Run, they were decisively defeated and hastily retreated back to Washington. At one point in the war, General Robert E. Lee and his Southern troops rode the outskirts of Alexandria where they were close enough to view the Capital dome. As the tide of the war turned, especially after Gettysburg, the frontlines of the war moved west and away from Washington, D.C. The fortress area at Alexandria, however, continued to serve as a major supply and replacement center throughout the remainder of the war.

Alexandria National Cemetery is one of the original 14 national cemeteries established in 1862. The first burials made in the cemetery were soldiers who died during training or from disease in the numerous hospitals around Alexandria. By 1864, the cemetery was nearly filled to capacity, which eventually led to the planning, development and construction of Arlington National Cemetery.

*Also posted in #bikenewdeal*

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Richard Taylor was a Confederate general. He attended Harvard and Yale (read classical and military history books), managed a large sugar cane plantation and was elected to the Louisiana State Senate.
Despite having no military experience before the Civil War and starting as an unpaid civilian aide-de-camp, he was promoted numerous times and was well respected.
His grandfather was a colonel in the Revolutionary War, his father was President Zachary Taylor and his uncle was a general in the Union Army.

N. Taylor Street in Arlington VA.
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