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Mr. Lincoln's city : an illustrated guide to the Civil War sites of Washington / Richard M. Lee.

Book/Text

McLean, Va. : EPM Publications, c1981.

1981

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 82-1365Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Reveille in Washington / by Margaret Leech.

Book/Text

New York : Carroll & Graf, 1986, c1969.

1986-1969

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 87-6Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121
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Mr. Lincoln's forts : a guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington / by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III and Walton H. Owen II ; foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.

Book/Text

Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., 1988.

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 89-21464Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Wartime Washington : the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee / edited by Virginia Jeans Laas ; foreword by Dudley T. Cornish.

Book/Text

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL 92-449Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Symbol, sword, and shield : defending Washington during the Civil War / Benjamin Franklin Cooling.

Book/Text

Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., c1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 92-17323Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech.

Book/Text

New York, London, Harper & Brothers [c1941]

1941

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 973.7-L (Leech, M. Reveille in Washington)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (District of Columbia) (Leech, M. Reveille in Washington)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, a foreigner's account; translated from the French by Aldebert de Chambrun.

Book/Text

New York, Random House [c1952]

1952

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Lincoln, A. (Chambrun, A. Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Crusader and feminist : letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 / edited with an introduction and notes by Arthur J. Larsen.

Book/Text

Saint Paul : Minnesota Historical Society, 1934.

1934

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Swisshelm (Swisshelm, J. Crusader and feminist) V. 2 1934Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Season of fire : the Confederate strike on Washington / Joseph Judge.

Book/Text

Berryville, Va. : Rockbridge Pub. Co., c1994.

1994

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKE 95-3438Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Libby : the sketches, letters & journal of Libby Beaman, recorded in the Pribilof Islands, 1879-1880 / as presented by Betty John.

Book/Text

Tulsa, Okla. : Council Oak Books ; Austin, Tex. : Distributed by Texas Monthly Press, c1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFG 95-187Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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A guide to Civil War Washington / Stephen M. Forman.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : Elliott & Clark Pub., c1995.

1995

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISI 96-3124Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Lincoln and episodes of the Civil War, by William E. Doster ...

Book/Text

New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.

1915

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL (Doster, W. E. Lincoln and episodes of the Civil War)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people. By F. Colburn Adams ... 26 illustrations. Illustrated by A.W. Waud.

Book/Text

New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1867]

1867

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNBX (Adams, F. C. Siege of Washington, D.C.)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberIK (Adams, F. C. Siege of Washington, D.C.)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Mr. Lincoln's Washington; selections from the writings of Noah Brooks, Civil War correspondent. Edited by P. J. Staudenraus.

Book/Text

South Brunswick [N.J.] T. Yoseloff [1967]

1967

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (District of Columbia) (Brooks, N. Mr. Lincoln's Washington)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington in Lincoln's time. Edited with an introd., by Herbert Mitgang.

Book/Text

New York, Rinehart [1958]

1958

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (District of Columbia) (Brooks, N. Washington in Lincoln's time)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The symbol and the sword; Washington, D.C., 1860-1865.

Book/Text

[Washington] c1962.

1962

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (D.C.) (District of Columbia. Civil war centennial commission. Symbol and the sword)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington during war time, a series of papers showing the military, political, and social phases during 1861 to 1865; official souvenir of the Thirty-Sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, collected and ed. by Marcus Benjamin under the direction of the Committee on Literature for the Encampment.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C., [Press of B.S. Adams] 1902.

1902

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (D.C.) (Grand Army of the Republic. National Encampment, 36th, Washington, D.C., 1902. Washington during war time)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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In the defences of Washington; or, The sunshine in a soldier's life. By Stephen F. Blanding.

Book/Text

Providence, E. L. Freeman & Son, Printers, 1889.

1889

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL (Blanding, S. F. In the defences of Washington)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Mr. Lincoln's Washington.

Book/Text

New York, Coward-McCann [1957]

1957

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FormatBook/TextCall numberNYGB D.C. G 15Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) (Kimmel, S. P. Mr. Lincoln's Washington)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Inside the White House in war times. By William O. Stoddard ... Illustrated by Dan Beard.

Book/Text

New York, C.L. Webster & Co., 1890.

1890

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) (Stoddard, W. O. Inside the White House in war times)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington in Lincoln's time / by Noah Brooks.

Book/Text

New York : Century Co., 1896, c1895.

1896-1895

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) (Brooks, N. Washington in Lincoln's time)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Jubal's raid: General Early's famous attack on Washington in 1864.

Book/Text

New York, McGraw-Hill [1960]

1960

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FormatBook/TextCall numberD-12 9087Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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In the days of Lincoln : girlhood recollections and personal reminiscences of life in Washington during the Civil War / by Elizabeth K. Vincent ; with a foreword by F. Ray Risdon ; and a verbatim account of the assassination and death of Abraham Lincoln as published in The Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., Saturday morning, April 15, 1865.

Book/Text

Gardena, Calif. : Spanish American Institute Press, 1924.

1924-1865

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXZ p.v. 101 no. 1-9Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Map of n. eastern Virginia and vicinity of Washington / compiled in Topographical Engineers Office at Division Head Quarters of General Irvin Mc Dowell, Arlington, January 1th [sic] 1862, from published and manuscript maps corrected by recent surveys and reconnaissances ; engraved on stone by J. Schedler ... N.Y.

Map

[Washington, D.C.?] : [Topographical Engineers Office], [1862]

1862

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FormatMapCall numberMap Div. 17-5413Item locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117
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FormatMapCall numberMap Div. (Virginia, Northeast & vicinity) (United States Engineer Bureau. "Surveys for military defences")Item locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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Topographical map of the original District of Columbia and environs showing the fortifications around the city of Washington / by E.G. Arnold C.E.

Map

New York : G. Woolworth Colton, 1862.

1862

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FormatMapCall numberMap Div. (District of Columbia. 1862) (Topographical map of the original District of Columbia)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117
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Dispatches from Lincoln's White House : the anonymous Civil War journalism of presidential secretary William O. Stoddard / edited by Michael Burlingame.

Book/Text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2002.

2002

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIK 02-7391Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Witness to the young republic : a Yankee's journal, 1828-1870 / edited by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough.

Book/Text

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1989.

1989

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FormatBook/TextCall numberII 89-23080Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Lincoln and Whitman : parallel lives in Civil War Washington / Daniel Mark Epstein.

Book/Text

New York : Ballantine Books, 2004.

2004

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 04-1228Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Libby : the Alaskan diaries & letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 / as presented by her granddaughter Betty John.

Book/Text

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1989, c1987.

1989-1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 89-7252Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Lincoln's sanctuary : Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home / Matthew Pinsker.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

2003

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIBM 05-2228Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Freedom rising : Washington in the Civil War / Ernest B. Furgurson.

Book/Text

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.

2004

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (Washington, D.C.) 05-4270Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Six days in April : Lincoln and the Union in peril / Frank Marcotte.

Book/Text

New York : Algora Pub., c2005.

2005

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKA 05-6707Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Wild Rose : Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War spy / Ann Blackman.

Book/Text

New York : Random House, c2005.

2005

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 05-6972Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Lincoln's other White House : the untold story of the man and his presidency / Elizabeth Brownstein.

Book/Text

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2005.

2005

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FormatTextCall numberIBM 06-2534Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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An idler : John's [sic] Hay's social and aesthetic commentaries for the press during the Civil War, 1861-1865 / [edited by] Douglas Warren Hill.

Book/Text

Bethesda, MD : Academica Press, c2006.

2006

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL 06-4207Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Dissonance : the turbulent days between Fort Sumter and Bull Run / David Detzer.

Book/Text

Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.

2006

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FormatTextCall numberIKE 06-5104Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Potomac diary : a soldier's account of the capital in crisis, 1864-1865 / [Richtmyer Hubbell ; edited by] Marc Newman.

Book/Text

Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., c2000.

2000

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL 06-4982Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Lincoln's White House secretary : the adventurous life of William O. Stoddard / edited by Harold Holzer.

Book/Text

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

2007

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKM 07-4913Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Desperate engagement : how a little-known Civil War battle saved Washington, D.C., and changed the course of American history / Marc Leepson.

Book/Text

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007.

2007

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (Maryland) 07-4962Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Civil War weather in Virginia / Robert K. Krick.

Book/Text

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

2007

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FormatTextCall numberIKF (Virginia) 07-6956Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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A historic resources study : the Civil War defenses of Washington / prepared by CEHP, Incorporated.

Book/Text

Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, National Capital Region, [2004]

2004

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FormatBook/TextCall numberISK (Washington) 08-476 v. 2Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Washington in Lincoln's time [microform].

Microform

New York : The Century Co., 1895.

1970-1895

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The Battle of Fort Stevens : Rock Creek Park, District of Columbia / National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Map

[Washington, D.C.] : National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, [2009?]

2009

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FormatMapCall numberMap Div. 09-5650Item locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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Mr. Lincoln's forts : a guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington / Benjamin Franklin Cooling III, Walton H. Owen II ; foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.

Book/Text

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2010.

2010

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKF (Washington, D.C.) 10-998Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Stranger's guide to Washington D.C., the city as Mr. Lincoln knew it [cartographic material].

Map

[Washington : T. Loftin Snell], c1965.

1965

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FormatMapCall numberMap Div. 11-490 textItem locationSchwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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Tillie engineer's logbook, 1863-1865.

Archival Mix

1863-1865

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FormatArchival MixCall numberMssCol 2996Item locationSchwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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