Georgetown from Virginia side of Potomac
As Civil War Daily Gazette explains, 150 years ago today Abraham Lincoln signed into law a measure that freed all slaves in the District of Columbia.
The following little story tends to show the southern attitudes that still existed in Washington.
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 17, 1862:
Spirit of the South.
We learn that on a recent occasion in Georgetown, when the clergyman of one of the churches read the prayer of thanksgiving for Northern victories, most of the congregation rose from their knees, and some of them left the church. The flame of patriotism is still burning brightly in the very strongholds of despotism.
A peek at Georgetown - 1861
