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THE DEFENSES OP WASHINGTON DURING THE ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN, SEPTEMBER 1-20, 1862.
Extensive additions to the defenses of the west bankof the Potomac were made subsequently; these will beindicated hereafter on another map. Forts Alexander,Franklin, and Eipley were afterw ard united and calledre-
doubts Davis, Kirby, and Cross, receiving later the nameof Fort Sumner. Forts De Kalb, Massachusetts, Pennsyl-vania , and Blanker were afterward changed respectivelyto Strong, Stevens, Reno , and Reynolds.— Editors.
most insalubrious part of “ the slashes” (now thefashionable quarter of the capital) I came upona squadron of cavalry comfortably “waiting or-ders ”— from anybody.
The stragglers were promptly gathered in, thehotels and bar-rooms were swept of officers of allgrades “ absent without leave,” while heavy detailsof cavalry reduced to obedience even the unrulyteamsters whose unbroken trains blocked thestreets, and checked the reckless and senselessgalloping of orderlies and other horsemen, whokept the foot-passengers in terror. Thus in two
days order was restored, and it was afterwardmaintained.
There was quite an army of officers and menwho had somehow become separated from theirregiments. This happened often wdthout anyfault of their own, or with less than the fre-quent scoldings in general orders would have onebelieve. The number continued to be so enor-mous]) as to be quite unmanageable by any ex-isting method. There was already a convalescentcamp near Alexandria, in charge of Colonel J.S. Belknap, of the 85th New York . Under the