An account of Lincoln and of the White House and Washington during his Presidency.
Documents daily life in Washington, D.C., through the eyes of Taft, an examiner for the U.S. Patent...
Short account of the battle in which General Jubal Early's Confederate forces were repulsed at Fort...
1867 first-person account of life in the Old Capitol Prison and Carrol Prison, which housed prisone...
In this 1863 autobiography, the Washington, D.C., socialite and Confederate spy told her story and ...
Greenhow, a leader in Washington society, was also one of the most celebrated Confederate spies in ...