Arlington National Cemetery's Section 27 is the final resting place of more than 3,800 formerly enslaved people who escaped to Washington during the Civil War but ... C. Meigs, the U.S. Army ...

Six weeks into quarantine, I was flailing. My wife was pregnant and in the midst of terrible morning sickness, our 4-year-old son was sick of all the activities I’d devised outside our D.C ...

In Washington, D.C., Army engineers-built aqueducts, bridges, and public buildings. In 1853, Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War ...

A scene from the Smithsonian Channel’s new documentary, Lincoln’s Washington ... his shop on the day Fort Sumter was attacked by Confederate forces and the Civil War began and later told ...