Civil War Defenses of Washington Historic Resource Study

¹ Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Mr, Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1988), 14-15.

² Longyear, John Munro. "Georgetown during the Civil War." Georgetown Today, 7, March 1975, 10.

³ U.S., War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1880-1901) (Hereafter referred to as AOR), (Serial 125) Series III, Volume IV, 1280-81.

⁴ AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 875-76.

⁵ Engineer Orders and Circulars, Orders, Issuances, 1811 - 1941, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Record Group 77, Archives I, National Archives and Records Administration (hereafter referred to as RG77).

⁶ AOR (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1119.

⁷ A2175, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, May 1, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

⁸ A2175, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, May 1, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

⁹ AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1130.

¹⁰ SW4529, Richard Delafield to E.M. Stanton, May 6, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77; AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1099-1100.

¹¹ Endorsements, SW4529, Richard Delafield to E.M. Stanton, May 6, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77; AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1101.

¹² AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1285-86.

¹³ AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1293-94.

¹⁴ A2180, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, May 20, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

¹⁵ A2181, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, May 22, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

¹⁶ A2184, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, May 29, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

¹⁷ A2191, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, June 6, 1865; A2232, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, July 10, 1865; A2326, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, October 17, 1865; Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

¹⁸ A2191, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, June 6, 1865; A2232, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, July 10, 1865; A2260, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, August 2, 1865; A2299, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, September 8, 1865; A2326, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, October 17, 1865; A2331, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, October 18, 1865; A2379, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, December 5, 1865; Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

¹⁹ A2191, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, June 6, 1865; A2232, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, July 10, 1865; A2260, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, August 2, 1865; A2299, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, September 8, 1865; A2326, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, October 17, 1865; A2331, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, October 18, 1865; A2379, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, December 5, 1865; Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

²⁰ A2435, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, January 13, 1866, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

²¹ A2630, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, July 14, 1866, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77.

²² SW4529, Richard Delafield to E.M. Stanton, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77; AOR, (Serial 97), Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1099; Fort Myer Post, The History of Fort Myer, Virginia. Special Centennial Edition of the Fort Myer Post. Fort Myer, VA: Fort Myer Post, [June] 1963, 4.

²³ "Defenses of Washington, DC," Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890, Special Files, 1794-1926; and #189, B.T. Swart, December 15, 1862, Claims and Related Papers for Damage to Property by Troops in the Service of the United States, 1861-65, Miscellaneous Claims, Claims Registers and Claims, 1839-1901, Central Records, Claims, 1839-1914; Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92, Archives I, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (hereafter referred to as RG92); District of Columbia, Land Papers, 1794-1916, Lands, 1790-1916, Records Relating to Various Subjects; Land Releases, 1865, Defenses of Washington, 1861-66, Records of Detached Engineer Officers; and SW4579, L.H.T. to B.T. Swart, Letters Received, 1826-66; RG77.

²⁴ John G. Barnard, A Report on the Defenses of Washington, to the Chief of Engineers, U S Army, Corps of Engineers, Corps of Engineers Professional Paper No. 20 (Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1871), 85.

²⁵ "De Russy, Fort (1865-66)," "Reno, Fort, DC, 1863," and "Defenses of Washington, DC." Entry 225, Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890, Special Files, 1794-1926 and #189, S 1138, B.T. Swart, December 15, 1862, Entry 843, Claims and Related Papers for Damage to Property by Troops in the Service of the United States, 1861-65, Miscellaneous Claims, Claims Registers and Claims, 1839-1901, Central Records, RG92; District of Columbia; Land Papers, 1794-1916, Lands, 1790-1916, Records Relating to Various Subjects and Land Releases, 1865, Defenses of Washington, 1861-66, Records of Detached Engineer Officers and SW4579, L.H.T. to B.T. Swart, Letters Received, 1826-66; RG77; Helm, Tenleytown, D. C., 168.

²⁶ SW4529, Richard Delafield to E.M. Stanton, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77; AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1099.

²⁷ Army and Navy Journal, III, August 26, 1865, 5.

²⁸ "Defenses of Washington, DC," Entry 225, Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890, Special Files, 1794-1926," RG92; Entry 574, Land Releases, 1865, Defenses of Washington, 1861-66, Records of Detached Engineer Officers and SW4529, Richard Delafield to E.M. Stanton, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77; Cooling, Symbol, Sword and Shield Second Revised Edition (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1991), 238-39; AOR, (Serial 97) Series I, Volume XLVI, Part 3, 1099.

²⁹ "Defenses of Washington, DC," Entry 225, Consolidated Correspondence File, 1794-1890, Special Files, 1794-1926," RG92; Defences of Washington, List of transfers of Public property as compensation for damages and releases by the Claimants," December 16, 1865; and other papers, Land Releases, 1865, Defenses of Washington, 1861-66, Records of Detached Engineer Officers; RG77; Cooling, Symbol, Sword and Shield, 238-39.

³⁰ #1240, Book F, Box 86, and #3817, Book H, Box 125, Quartermaster Stores, Rent, Services, and Miscellaneous Claims, and #1417, Book 54, Box 15, Miscellaneous Claims, Document File, Claims Branch, 1861-1889, RG92.

³¹ A2395, B.S. Alexander to Richard Delafield, December 12, 1865, Letters Received, 1826-66, RG77; Cooling, Symbol, Sword and Shield, 236; The Army and Navy Journal, III, November 25, 1865, 208.

³² Leonard E. Brown, Fort Stanton, Fort Foote and Battery Ricketts: Historic Structures Reports (Washington, DC: Office of History and Historic Architecture, Eastern Services Center, National Park Service, 1970), 85-121; Cooling, Mr. Lincoln's Forts, 16, 47, 217-18, 225-32; Jacqui Handly, Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C.: A Cultural Landscape Inventory (Washington, D.C. The Government Printing Office [Falls Church Office, Denver Service Center, National Park Service], 1996), 45.

³³ Cooling, Mr. Lincoln's Forts, 15; C.B. Rose, Jr., "Civil War Forts in Arlington," The Arlington Historical Magazine, 1 (October 1960), 25-26; Zack Spratt, "Rock Creek Bridges," Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 1953-56, Volumes 53-56, 107-08; O.E. Hunt, "Defending the National Capital," in Francis Trevelyan Miller, The Photographic History of the Civil War (10 Volumes, New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911), Volume 5, Forts and Artillery, 94.

³⁴ Cooling, Mr. Lincoln's Forts, 163-65; U.S., Army, Judge Advocate General, United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks, Edited by Lewis W. Call (Washington, D.C.: The Government Printing Office, 1910), 41.

³⁵ Cooling, Mr. Lincoln's Forts, 165; Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Jubal Early's Raid on Washington in 1864 (Baltimore, MD: The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989), 116, 238-39.