A few months before, there had been 18,000 trained artillerymen manning the 900 guns and guarding the 37 miles of fortifications that ringed Washington. Grant had taken those men for harsher duty ...

Once you’ve hit all the museums and the monuments and memorials that peak your interest, there are still a seemingly endless array of other things for history buffs to do in DC, which is ... of a ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an ... neurologic disease and Desmarres Hospital in Washington, DC for eye and ear disease. By the end of 1863 ...