Our Lady of the Hospital
Cover detail, Songs of the War, By Miles O’Reilly, 1864 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
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Occupied Alexandria: How the Civil War Transformed a Southern City
April 24, 2027 @ 2:00 pm
The day after Virginia’s secession in May 1861, Union troops marched from Washington to occupy its neighbor Alexandria. A former powerhouse in the slave trade, Alexandria was the first Confederate city in Virginia to be occupied during the Civil War and governed under strict martial law. Overnight, this bustling urban town on […]
