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The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom. In the past due 1840s, Agent Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Referred to as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg's hosted energetic dining room table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually swift turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were repeated escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early on years in Washington turned out formative for Lincoln. In 1861, now in the White House, Lincoln could gaze out his office windows and see the Confederate flag flying over the Potomac. Washington, DC, sat on the front lines of the Civil Conflict. Prone and insecure, the capital was rife with Confederate sympathizers. On the crossroads of slavery and freedom, the location was a refuge for a large number of contraband and fugitive slaves. The Lincoln administration took strict steps to tighten up security and set up camps to provide food, shelter, and health care for contrabands. In 1863, a Freedman's Town rose on the grounds of the Lee house, where the Confederate flag once flew. The president and Mrs. Lincoln in person comforted the wounded soldiers who flooded wartime Washington. In 1862, Lincoln spent July 4 using in a train of ambulances taking casualties from the Peninsula Marketing campaign to Washington clinics. He saluted the "One-Legged Brigade" built outside the White House as "orators", their wounds eloquent expressions of sacrifice and determination. The administration built more than one hundred military clinics to care for Union casualties. These are among the remarkable displays in Lincoln's Citadel, a brand new, absorbing narrative history of Lincoln's control in Civil Conflict Washington. This is actually the vivid report of the way the Lincoln administration fulfilled the immense problems the war posed to the city, transforming a susceptible capital into a bastion for the Union.
