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• Washington (D.C.) -- History

• Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
• Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources

• Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War

• Siege of Washington, D.C., Written Expressly for Little People, by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)
• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Old Capitol and Its Inmates, by Virginia Lomax (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1868), by Elizabeth Keckley
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1934), by Jane Grey Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co. (et al.), 1873), by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co. (et al.), 1874), by Mary Clemmer (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Washington and its Romance (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Thomas Nelson Page, illust. by Walter O. Reese and Emily Shaw Reese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington, Outside and Inside: A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin, Growth, Excellencies, Abuses, Beauties, and Personages of Our Governing City (1873), by George Alfred Townsend (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. (2 volumes in one, covering all of Smith's life; London: John Murray, 1903), by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith, contrib. by Juana María de los Delores de León Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith: 1787-1819, by Harry George Wakelyn Smith, ed. by G. C. Moore Smith (HTML in New Zealand)

• Commodore Barney's Young Spies: A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1907), by James Otis, illust. by J. Watson Davis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital (National Park Service source book series #4; Washintgton, GPO, 1946), ed. by Saul Kussiel Padover, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Court Circles of the Republic, or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co.; et al., 1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The Court Circles of the Republic, or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society Under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations from Washington to Grant (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Pub. Co., ca. 1869), by E. F. Ellet, illust. by Mrs. R. E. Mack (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Greek Letter Men of Washington (New York: Umbdenstock Pub. Co., 1900), by W. J. Maxwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mirrors of Washington, by Clinton W. Gilbert and John Kirby (Gutenberg text)

• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)

• The History of Howard University, Washington, D.C., by the Late President William W. Patton, D.D., Ll.D.: 1867 to 1888 (Washington: Industrial Dept., Howard University, 1896), by William W. Patton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust