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A Historic Resources Study: The Civil War Defenses of Washington Part I: Appendices A Historic Resources Study: The Civil War Defenses of Washington Part I: Appendices United States Department of Interior National Park Service National Capital Region Washington, DC Contract No. 144CX300096053 Modification# 1 Prepared by CEHP, Incorporated Chevy Chase, Maryland A Historic Resources Study: The Civil War Defens es of Washington Part I Appendices Appendix A: Alphabetical Listing of Forts, Batteries, and Blockhouses Appendix B: Alphabetical Listing of Known Fortification Owners, Their Representatives, and Fortifications on Their Land Appendix C: Naming of Forts Appendix D: Correspondence Concerning Appropriations for the Defenses of Washington Appendix E: General Reports about the Defenses Appendix F: Supplement to Commission Report Appendix G: Mostly Orders Pertaining to the Defenses of Washington Appendix H: A Sampling of Correspondence, Reports, Orders, Etc., Relating to the Battle of Fort Stevens Appendix I: Civil War Defenses of Washington Chronology Bibliography Appendix A. Alphabetical Listing of Forts,. Batteries, and Blockhouses Civil War Defenses of Washington Page A-1 Historic Resources Study Part I-Appendix A Appendix A: Alphabetical Listing of Forts, Batteries, and Blockhouses Fortification Known Landowner or their Representative Fort Albany James Roach and heirs, J.R. Johnson Battery Bailey Shoemaker family Fort Baker · Sarah E. Anderson, Ann A.C. Naylor & Susan M. Naylor Fort Barnard Philip J. Buckey, Sewall B. Corbettt Fort Bennett Wm. B. Ross, Attorney John H. Bogue, B.B. Lloyd Fort Berry Sewall B. Corbettt Blockhouse south of Fort Ellsworth Elizabeth Studds' heirs, George Studds Blockhouse between Fort Ellsworth & Fort Lyon, also battery Henry Studds Fort Bunker Hill Henry Quinn Fort C.F. Smith Thomas Jewell Battery Cameron J.H. Phillips Fort Carroll Fenwick Young Fort Cass Mary Randolph Lee, United.States Government Fort Chaplin Selby B. Scaggs Fort Craven Selby B. Scaggs Fort Corcoran William H. Ross Fort Craig Septimus Brown, Samuel Carison (Causen??), __ Elliot Fort Davis . Major Sayles J. Bowen, Daniel F. Lee Fort DeRussy B.T. Swart Fort Dupont Michael Caton Fort Ellsworth Henry Rozier Dulany, Rebecca Ann Dulany Fort Ethan Allen Stephen & Mrs. E.M. Meredith Fort Foote Francis W. Rozier & wife, Mrs. M.A. Hill,, Benedict Edelin Fort Gaines William A.T. Maddox & Mr. Loughborough Battery Garesche &·nearby Blockhouse Margeret B. Dangerfield Fort Greble William Berry, Thomas M. Berry, Trustee, John C. Mcferron, Lucien and Miss Eliza Berry Fort Hagerty Owen & Mary Murray and heirs, Thomas Cozar, Guardian Battery Jameson John Veitch Fort Kearney · JohnMagee Battery Kemble William A.T. Maddox Fort Lincoln · John Veitch Fort Mansfield Thomas Dean family, Samuel Shoe~aker Fort Marcy Gilbert Vanderwerken Fort Martin Scott James Weaver, C & 0 Canal Co. Fort Meigs Mrs. Stow, Mr. Joseph Trimble Battery Parrott Ellen J. King, John H. King Battery Penn John Collins Fort Reno Giles Dyer, Mrs. [James C.] Dyer, Miles Dyer, Fort Reynolds George W. Chase, L.E. Chittenden, Edward B.Powell, Mary Walker Civil War Defenses of Washington Page A-2 Historic Resources Study Part I-Appendix A Fort Ricketts J.H. Smith, George Washington Talburtt Battery Rodgers Samuel 0. Bogot, Manassas Gap Railroad Fort Runyon James Roach and heirs Fort Saratoga John B. Kibbey, William. Kibbey, Executor, Ann McDaniels Fort Scott L.E. Chittenden, Hunter family Fort.Sedgwick John Kennedy Fort Simmons S.F. & L. Burrows, Charles Shoemaker Fort Slemmer Henry Douglass Fort Slocum John F. Callan, L.E. Chittenden, Mary Walker Battery Smeade B.T. Swart Fort Snyder Joseph T. Jenkins, Thomas Jenkins, ( Z?)Badcock Williams Fort Stanton George Washington Talburtt Fort Stevens Emory Chapel or Emory Methodist Church, Elizabeth Thomas (?) Fort Strong Thomas Dawson, Allen Pearce Fort Sumner Albert Lodge Fort Thayer Charles B. Calvert, Executor Fort Tillinghast Columbus Alexander Fort Totten George Thomas Battery Vermont United States Government Fort Wagner Judson Richardson Fort Whipple Mary Randolph Lee, United States Government Fort Williams Samuel Cooper, Willam Silvey, George A. Smith, John Williams Fort Williard Samuel R. Johnson, Josiah Willard · Fort Woodbury John Lambden Fort Worth William Silvey 1 I Information in this appendix was found in the following sources: Reed Hansen, :'Civil War to Civil Concern: A History of Fort Marcy, Virginia." M.A. thesis in History, George Mason University, 1973, 13-14; National Archives and Records Administration, Archives I, Record Group 92, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General (hereafter referred to as RG92), Special Files, 1794-1926, Entry 225, Consoli dated Correspondence File, 1794-1890, "De Russy, Fort (1865-66)," "Defenses of Washington, DC," "Ethan Allen, Fort (VA) (1864)," "Greble, Fort (MD, 1869)," "Fort Reno, DC, 1863-," "Slocum, Fort - D.C."; National Archives and Records Administration, Archives I, Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the _Chief of Engineers (hereafter referred to as RG77), Records of Detached Engineer Officers, Defenses of Washington, 1861-66, Entry 574, Land Releases, 1865, including "Defenses of Washington, List of transfers of Public property as compensation for damages and releases by the Claimants," December 16, 1865"; National Archives and Records Administration, Archives I, Record Group 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Microcopy. 653, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 [hereafter referred to as M653], Rolls 102-104; Wynn E. Withans, "Preservation Plan for ·Fort C.F. Smith," Plan 830 (January 1986) [Found in Fort Ward, Cooling Papers, Research Files, "Mr. Lincoln's Forts" Box 2 of 2, folder- marked Fort C.F. Smith], 7; Ruth Ward, "Life in Alexandria County During the Civil War," The Arlington Historical Society Journal, VII, (October 1984), 3; Dorthea Abbott, Historian, to Gail Baker, Chairman, HALRB, September 20, 1990, Subject: History of the Hendry property, in Arlington County Central Library, Virginia Room, Vertical File, Civil War Forts-Fort C.F. Smith; Fort Myer Post, The History of Fort Myer, Virginia, 100th Anniversary Issue, June 1863, 1-2; A Narrative History of Fon Myer Virginia [1954?] Falls Church, VA: Litho-Print Press, n.d., l; Benjamin Franklin Cooling, III, and Walton H. Owen, II. Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1988, 64; Civil War Defenses of Washington Page A-3 Historic Resources Study Part I-Appendix A Judith ~eek Helm, Tenleytow11, D. C.: Country Village into City Neighborhood (Washington, DC: Tennally Press, 1981), 97, I 13, 119; Fort Ward, Cooling Papers, Research Files, "Mr. Lincoln's Forts" Box I of 2, 2nd folder; Washington at Home, 82- 83; RG92, Central Records,• Claims, 1839-1914, Claims Registers and Claims, 1839-1901, Miscellaneous Claims, Entry 843, Claims and Related Papers for Damage to Property by Troops in the Service of the United States, 1861-65, #189; RG92, Claims, 1839-1914,Claims Branch, 1861-1870, Document File, Quartermaster Stores, Rent, Services and Miscellaneous Claims, Entries 797 and 812, Civil War Claims, D-1393, H-3817 and 54- 1417; National Archives and Records Administration, Archives I, Record Group 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1700's to 1917 (hereafter referred to as RG94), Military Reservation Division, Early 1800's-1916, Entry 464, Reservation File, Early 1800's-1916, "Fort Foote"; RG77, Entry 18, Letters Received, 1826-66, SW4579, L.H.T. to B.T. Swart;·~G77, entry 171, Land Papers, 1794-1916, District of Columbia; Philip W. Ogilvie, "Elizabeth Thomas (1821-1917), multi-page document of events in her life and reproduction of numerous published accounts about her (1998); Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Jubal Early's Raid On Washingto11 1864 (Baltimore, MD: The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989), 132, 134,; Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defend ing Washington During the Civil War, Second Edition (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1991), 80; Cooling and Walton, _Mr. Lincoln's Forts, 159; Cramer, John Henry Cramer,- Lincoln Under Enemy Fire: The Complete Account of His Experiences During . ' Early's Attack 011 Washi11gto11, (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1948), 24-25; William Van Zandt Cox, The Defenses of Washington-General Early's Advance on the Capital and the Battle of Fort Stevens, July 11 a11d 12, 1864. (Washington, I 907?), 4; Program for the Commorative Ceremony on The One Hundreth Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Stevens at Fort Stevens, Washington, D.C., 2:00 o'clock, July I I, 1964 (1964), "Aunt Betty," 2 pages; U.S., Congress, Senate, Committee on the District of Columbia. Park Improvement Papers: A Series of Twe11ty Papers Relati11g to the Improvement of Park System of the District of Columbia, No. 4, Fort Stevens, Where Lincoln Was U11der Fire by William V. Cox (Washington, D.C.: The Government Printing Office, 1901), 2; #A2298, Major D.C. Houston to Brevet Major General Andrew A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, May 11, 1869; #A3624, William P. Craighill to Chief of Engineers, May 13, 1870; and #A3557, Samuel 0. Bogot to Chief of Engineers, April 20, 1870; Entry 36, Letters Received ("A File"), November 1867- November 1870, Correspondence Relating To Fortifications, Correspondence of Office Divisions, 1865-70, Records of the Central Office, RG77; Entry 36, Letters Received ("A File"), November 1867-November 1870, Correspondence Relating To Fortifications, Correspondence ·of Office Divisions, 1865-70, Records of the Central Office, RG77; "The Rambler" column, The Sunday Star, May 21, 1916--Part 4, page 7 and June 4, 1916--Part 4, page 6; Alan Virta, Prince George's County: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 1984 & 1991), 121, 125; Anne Ciprani Webb, "Fort Strong on Arlington Heights," The Arlington Historical Magazine, 5 (October 1973), 34-39; Roy C. J?rewer, "Fort Scott-Past, Present, and Future," The Arlington Historical Magazine, 3 (October 1965), 40- 47; Jan Magnusson, "Fort Scott," The Arlington Historical Magazine, 2 (October 1964), 37A7; T.