1-624-540 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Washington, DC, 1862-1867. Although threatened by Confederate forces from the state of Virginia for much of the American Civil War, Washington DC remained in Union hands throughout the conflict. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.