Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC(Kenneth J. Winkle - LP) Paperback museum Confederate)

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Chapter 14: The Family's Later Years

Why not continue to tackle that age-old question

summoned General Grant to protect the Capitol

Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC(Kenneth J. Winkle - LP) Paperback museum Confederate)by Kenneth J. Winkle In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg's hosted lively dinner table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in