This is Fort Stevens (originally known as Fort Massachusetts), north of
Washington, near the Soldiers' Home, where President Lincoln had his
summer residence. It was to this outpost that Early's troops advanced on
July 12, 1864. In the fighting of that day Lincoln himself stood on the
ramparts, and a surgeon who stood by his side was wounded. These works
were feebly garrisoned, and General Gordon declared in his memoirs that
when the Confederate troops reached Fort Stevens they found it untenanted.
This photograph was taken after the occupation of the fort by Company F of
the Third Massachusetts Artillery.
[Illustration: MEN OF THE THIRD MASSACHUSETTS HEAVY ARTILLERY IN FORT
STEVENS