Ashley’s Reviews > The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville > Status Update

After Ft Sumter began the war, Washington DC sat essentially unguarded as the mid-southern states joined the Deep South in treasonous rebellion. Imagine the sleepless nights in that city as just the 5th Massachussetts, some howitzers on porticos and barrels of flour stood between amassing rebel armies and a city surrounded on three sides by Virginia (slave, seceded) and on the forth by Maryland (slave, not yet gone).