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' Text Appearing After Image: OOP^RjGHT. I9M, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FIRST Connecticut HEAVY ARTILLERY, ASSIGNED TO THE DEFENSE OF WASHINGTON When Early approached Washington from the north, in 1804, the crack artillery companies, like that represented in the photograph (the First Connecticut Heavy), had all left the city to its fate. In the spring of 1802, as this picture was taken, just before the beginning of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Colonel Tyler was in the act of examining a despatch at the sally-port of Fort Richardson, Arlington Heights, Virginia. During the first two years of the war the Government devoted a great part of its energies to the development of a strong line of fortifications around the capital city, on both sides of the Potomac. Washington's nearness to the Confederate lines made such precautions necessary. The political significance of a possible capture of the national capital by the Confederates w-as fully appreciated. The retaining of large bodies of troops for the protection of
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