24Although the Mexico Typescript says only that the widow Shepherd supported the family by her own exertions, the 1850 city directory (Edward Waite, The Washington Directory and Congressional and Executive Register for 1850 [Washington, D.C., 1850]) cites a boarding house operated by a Mrs. Shepherd at a slightly different address on Ninth Street, but no doubt refers to the same person. A new Washington quadrant and house-numbering policy in 1869 dramatically altered house numbers.
25Mexico Typescript, p. 1.
26Tindall, Standard History of the City of Washington, p. 262.
27“Sessions Book, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., First Book, Session 1828–1878,” National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.
28George W. Evans, The Master Mind and Rebuilder of the Nation’s Capital: A Paper Read before the Society of Natives of the District of Columbia, October 20th, 1922 (Washington, D.C., 1922), p. 6.
29Mexico Typescript, p. 1.
30Tindall, “Sketch of Alexander Robey Shepherd,” p. 66.
31William F. Mattingly, “The Unveiling of a Statue to the Memory of Alexander R. Shepherd in front of the District Building, Washington, D.C., May 3, 1909,” pp. 24–25, Kiplinger Research Library, Historical Society of Washington, Washington, D.C.
32Tindall, “Sketch of Alexander Robey Shepherd,” p. 62.
33Evening Star, May 16, 1857; and Walter Clephane, “Lewis Clephane: A Pioneer Washington Republican,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society 21 (1918):276.
34Evening Star, July 3, 1885. The article went on to say that silting up of the Potomac River flats created a major problem for reaching deep water. The onset of the Civil War saw the boat club forgotten, and members fought for one side or the other.
35Carl Abbott, “National Capitals in a Networked World,” in Berlin-Washington, 1800–2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities, ed. Andreas Daum and Christof Mauch (Cambridge, 2005), p. 112.
36Bowling, Creation of Washington, D.C., p. 12.
37Harrison, Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction, pp. 4–6.
38Kenneth Bowling, “Siting Federal Capitals,” in Daum and Mauch, Berlin-Washington, 1800–2000, pp. 37–38.
39The Grices were from Philadelphia and the Youngs were from Portsmouth, Virginia; ancestors from both families had served with distinction in America’s early wars.
40Alan Lessoff, The Nation and Its City: Politics, “Corruption,” and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861–1902 (Baltimore, 1994), p. 5.
41Howard Gillette, Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. (Baltimore, 1995), p. 18.
42Report [with Senate Bill no. 136], 23rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1835, S. Rep. 97, Feb. 2, 1835, reprinted in full in Board of Public Works 1872 Annual Report (Washington, D.C., 1872), pp. 25–32.
43Ibid., p. 26.
44Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vols. (London, 1842), 1:281–82.
45Walter Erhart, “Written Capitals and Capital Topography,” Daum and Mauch, Berlin-Washington, 1800–2000, pp. 57–58.
46Gillette, Between Justice and Beauty, pp. 22–23.
47Ibid., pp. 25–26.
48In Ronald C. White Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York, 2009), p. 251.
49Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (New York, 1941), pp. 9–10.
50Lessoff, The Nation and Its City, p. 18.
51U.S. Census, 1860: Recapitulation of the Tables of Population, Nativity, and Occupation (Washington, D.C., 1864), pp. 616–19.
52Carl Abbott, Political Terrain: Washington, D. C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (Chapel Hill, 1999), pp. 64–65.
53Ibid., p. 11.
54Philadelphia Ledger, Dec. 29, 1860, quoted in Evening Star, Jan. 2, 1861.
55James Whyte, The Uncivil War: Washington during the Reconstruction, 1865–1878 (New York, 1958), p. 104.
56Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 4.
57Evening Star, Jan. 1, 1861.
58Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 23.
59House Select Committee of Five, Alleged Hostile Organization against the Government within the District of Columbia, 36th Cong., 2nd sess., Feb. 14, 1861, H. Rep. 79.
60War History of the National Rifles, Company A, Third Battalion, District of Columbia Volunteers, of 1861 (Wilmington, Del., 1887), p. 11.
61Ibid., p. 17.
62Third Battalion, D.C. Militia, “Description and Morning Report,” vol. 1, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Group, Washington, D.C. (hereafter NARA).
63Ibid.
64War History of the National Rifles, pp. 17–18, 24.
65Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington, vol. 1, Village and Capital 1800–1878 (Prince ton, N.J., 1962), p. 241.
66Evening Star, Apr. 25, 1861; War History of the National Rifles, pp. 20–22; an interesting sidelight to the troop retrieval story is that one of the Pennsylvania Railroad employees detailed by the railroad’s vice president, Thomas Scott, to assist was Andrew Carnegie, “a dapper little flaxen-haired Scotchman” who was Scott’s private secretary and personal telegrapher (Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 67).
67Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 67.
68Ibid., pp. 79–80.
69War History of the National Rifles, pp. 26–27; Evening Star, May 24, 1861. Shepherd’s Civil War service on the Virginia side of the Potomac River was attested by a military pass dated June 8 from Head Quarters, Military Dept. of Washington, authorizing him to pass over the bridges within the lines. Shepherd signed his name beneath the text on the back of the pass (copy courtesy of Shepherd grand daughter Mary Wagner Woods).
70Leech, Reveille in Washington, pp. 80–81; Evening Star, May 24, 1861; War History of the National Rifles, p. 31.
71Clephane, “Lewis Clephane,” pp. 263–77.
72Bryan, History of the National Capital, 2:392–93.
73Kenneth J. Winkle, Lincoln’s Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D. C. (New York, 2013), p. 204.
74Salmon P. Chase, Going Home to Vote: Au then tic Speeches of S. P. Chase (Washington, D.C., 1863), pp. 27–28.
75Leech, Reveille in Washington, pp. 242–43; Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863–1877 (New York, 1988), pp. 228–29.
76Evening Star, June 4, 1861.
77Ibid., May 31, 1861.
78Ibid., June 4, 1861.
79Ibid., June