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CHAPTER

I. A CAPITAL MADE TO ORDER 1

II. WAR TIMES AND THEIR SEQUEL 26

III. “ON THE HILL” 54

IV. THESE OUR LAWMAKERS 85

V. “THE OTHER END OF THE AVENUE” 114

VI. THROUGH MANY CHANGING YEARS 147

VII. “THE SPIRIT OF GREAT EVENTS” 177

VIII. NEW FACES IN OLD PLACES 207

IX. THE REGION ’ROUND ABOUT 235

X. MONUMENTS AND MEMORIES 261

INDEX 287

_List of Illustrations_

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White House, from the State Department i

Where Lincoln Died _Frontispiece_

Down F Street to the Interior Department vii

Old Mill, on Bladensburg Battlefield ix

Washington, across the Potomac from Arlington xi

Capitol, from Pennsylvania Avenue, West xiii

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General Washington’s Office in Georgetown 8

George Washington Tavern, Bladensburg 18

Octagon House 30

Union Engine House of 1815 42

On the Ruins of Fort Stevens 50

Survivals from “Before the War” 62

Rock Creek 74

Capitol, from New Jersey Avenue 84

Where Dolly Madison Gave Her Farewell Ball 96

Lee Mansion at Arlington 108

Old Carlyle Mansion, Alexandria 120

Washington’s Pew in Christ Church, Alexandria 132

Mount Vernon 142

Tudor House, Georgetown 154

Bladensburg Duelling-Ground 156

Decatur House 170

Soldiers’ Home 180

Old City Hall 192

The “Old Capitol” 204

St. Paul’s, the Oldest Church in the District 218

St. John’s, “the President’s Church” 234

Ford’s Theatre, the Old Front 248

Stage Entrance through which Booth Escaped 260

Rendezvous of the Lincoln Conspirators 274

A Herdic Cab 286

_Walks About Washington_