Keeping Warm in a Civil War Encampment
/Staying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.
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Staying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.
Read MoreEarly port-improvers used whatever materials they had available--including pieces of "trash" ships, a recent find a few months ago at 220 South Union Street, future site of the Hotel Indigo.
Read MoreAt 220 South Union Street, right off the Potomac River at the corner with Duke Street, a Hotel Indigo will replace a shipping terminal. Archaeologists have been peeling back the layers.
Read MorePaula Tarnapol Whitacre's website with a focus on her forthcoming biography on abolitionist Julia Wilbur.