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Duff Green's Row, May 1862:
The Union Army, now in charge of dealing with the "contrabands," moved them to Duff Green's Row, a row of townhouses on the east side of the 100 block of 1st Street on Capitol Hill. Decades earlier the houses catered to boarders. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln, as a freshman congressman from Illinois, lived there in 1847. By May 1862, there were at least 600 "contrabands" housed there. Today the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress stands at this location. |