Historical Marker

Fort Carroll

Historical marker location:
3720 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Southeast, Congress Heights, District of Columbia
( Marker is on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue Southeast, 0.1 miles north of South Capitol Street Southeast, on the right when traveling west.)

Civil War Defenses of Washington. 1861-1865

Washington, D.C. is 90 square miles, surrounded by reality.
Andrew Johnson in The Public Papers of the Presidents, 1865
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