Mr. Lincoln’s Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III and Walton H. Owen II, The Scarecrow Press, 2009, $50 By the third summer of the Civil War, Washing ton, D.C., was probably the most heavily fortified city in the world. Sixty-eight enclosed earthen forts, 93 supporting batteries …
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