While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor ... who’d debarked from a train on their way to Washington. Eight rioters, one bystander and three soldiers ...

Intended to defend Washington, D.C. from river approaches, Fort Washington was garrisoned by U.S. Marines during the Civil War. The current masonry structure, built in 1824, along with concrete ...

The battle at Fort Stevens would be the only one fought in Washington ... Civil War: Lincoln’s personal playlist Troops marched into battle to the strains of "John Brown's Body" or "Maryland ...

BIG POOL — Braxton Berkey, a Maryland Park Service weapons ... The inspection and drill were part of Fort Frederick State Park's American Civil War at the fort weekend, which had drawn about ...

And it echoes through Maryland’s own history. In 1861, amid the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas ... In 1861, Baltimore City and Fort McHenry were at the heart of a fierce ...

WELL, TODAY MARKS THE 161ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, WHICH TOOK PLACE RIGHT HERE IN MARYLAND AND REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS ...