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Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A portrait of the SouthCarver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 a wartime view of the convalescent hospital wards that ringed the capital, where Union soldiers mended within sight of the unfinished Capitol dome. The image carries the quiet ledger keeping of a city turned garrison, its tents and barracks pitched against the long arithmetic of casualty lists. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the