The Civil War Defenses of Washington were a group of Union Army fortifications that protected the federal capital city, Washington, D.C., from invasion...

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, was the center of the Union war effort, which rapidly...

the threats posed by nuclear weapons. Since the end of the Cold War, the focus of civil defense has largely shifted from responding to military attack...

Offerman. The plot follows a team of war journalists traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C. during a civil war fought across the United States...

the Civil War defenses of Washington (see Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War). Shortly after the Union Army's rout at the First Battle of Bull...

one of seven temporary earthwork forts part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War built in the Northeast quadrant of the...

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...

one of seven temporary earthwork forts, part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War, built in the Northeast quadrant of the...

Union Army during the American Civil War. It was created on February 2, 1863, to consist of all troops garrisoned in Washington, D.C., and included three infantry...

Battle of Fort Stevens was an American Civil War battle fought July 11–12, 1864, in Washington County, D.C. in present-day Northwest Washington, D.C.,...

constructed during the American Civil War as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. Located near Tenleytown, in the District of Columbia, it filled the gap...

one of seven temporary earthwork forts part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War built in the Northeast quadrant of the...

Massachusetts served on duty at Hall's Hill, Virginia, as part of the Defenses of Washington. He resigned his commission on November 5, 1861 due to poor...

cemetery. Civil War Defenses of Washington Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War Bibliography of the American Civil War Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln...

Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...

destroying the remains of the ramparts. Plans to memorialize the Civil War Defenses of Washington date to the 1860s, particularly the idea of a road connecting...

2012-06-02. "Civil War Defenses of Washington". National Park Service. Retrieved 30 May 2012. "An Act to provide a Government for the District of Columbia"...

Fort Totten Drive. American Civil War portal Civil War Defenses of Washington Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War Fort Slocum Fort Slemmer Fort...

Virginia as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War. Built in 1861, shortly after the occupation of Arlington, Virginia...

part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, DC, was built and named in his honor. Thayer retired from the Army on June 1, 1863, with the rank of colonel...

American Civil War-era fortification constructed in 1861 on a hilltop along the west bank of Rock Creek within Washington, D.C., as part of the Defenses of Washington...

and defenses of fortifications. This article will focus on the use of heavy artillery in the attack of fortified places during the American Civil War. The...

a major fortification of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, located in what is now the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The fort sat on...

agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization when President...

southern and eastern borders of the Tsardom of Russia Western Russian fortresses, Russia Civil War Defenses of Washington, United States Victoria Lines...

Civil defense in the United States refers to the use of civil defense in the history of the United States, which is the organized non-military effort...

17, 2021. "Veirs Mill Historical Marker". "Civil War Defenses of Washington Chapter VII". The History Of Montgomery County, Maryland, From Its Earliest...

The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975...

Washington MD courtyard. United States portal American Civil War portal Civil War Defenses of Washington Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War List...

one of seven temporary earthwork forts part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War built in the Northeast quadrant of the...