Battery Ricketts

Historical marker location:

2782 Bruce Place Southeast, Woodland, District of Columbia

( Marker is at the intersection of Bruce Place Southeast and Raynolds Place Southeast, on the right when traveling north on Bruce Place Southeast.)

Civil War Defenses of Washington. 1861-1865.

The District was originally much larger: The District of Columbia originally included land from both Maryland and Virginia, but in 1846, the portion of the District that had been taken from Virginia was returned to the state.