Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 6 - 8:30 pm and will include dinner. The live stream will begin around 7:15 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email).
Join the DACOR Bacon House for a bicentennial evening event in partnership with The Civil War Roundtable of the District of Columbia. The Civil War affected every ward of the District of Columbia, including that part of the ward that became known as Foggy Bottom. Thousands of men volunteered to fight to preserve the Union. Almost every family was affected, not the least the family of William T. Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, his wife Sally Sprigg Carroll, and their two sons and four daughters, who lived on F Street at the corner of 18th in Foggy Bottom and near the Executive Mansion. Much of their street was requisitioned by the military. At one end, the Winder Building served as a nerve center of the war; at the other end, Camp Fry was constructed on either side of 23rd from Washington Circle down to the waterfront. Speakers at this evening’s event will focus on the camp, the Street, the Winder Building, and the Carroll family as each played its part in the war effort.
We hope you will join us for dinner and a revealing discussion by our panel of experts as they dissect the many moving parts of a divisive conflict in a nation’s capital city.
With Frank Leone, Historian of Foggy Bottom, on Camp Fry; Jessica Barnes, Curator, F Street House, home of the President of George Washington University, on the house and its occupants; Kristopher D. White, Director of Education and Events, American Battlefield Trust, on the Winder Building; and Terence Walz, Historian, DACOR Bacon House, on the Carroll Family and its Effort to Preserve the Union.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
