Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC(Kenneth J. Winkle - LP) Paperback Section- Prisoners and POW camps The pre-published genealogy was awarded

The pre-published genealogy was awarded "Humanitarian Award" from the African American Museum in Peoria

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Walter Stahr

this historic train station accommodated thousands of wounded Union soldiers as they began their long journeys home via the railroad

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships

Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC(Kenneth J. Winkle - LP) Paperback Section- Prisoners and POW camps The pre-published genealogy was awardedby Kenneth J. Winkle In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg's hosted lively dinner table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in