City Hall Park - New York City, New York, USA
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Once the civil war began, City Hall Park played a crucial role
Waymark Code: WMV8YR
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/16/2017
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«Once the [civil] war began, City Hall Park—the city's de facto town square—played a crucial role. It was here that enlistment offices were set up to recruit Union volunteers. When Mary Todd Lincoln visited the city soon after her husband’s inauguration, she reviewed troops at the "park barracks," very likely set up here. After Lincoln's assassination, his body lay in state in the rotunda of City Hall, April 24-25, 1865. It was here that the only known photo of him in his coffin was snapped by an enterprising photographer.»
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«The illustration above, from Harper’s Weekly, is of temporary barracks in front of City Hall, built to accommodate gathering troops from New York and beyond. (You can see City Hall towering in the background.) More troop accommodation would soon be built throughout the city.
By 1862, when it became clear that the conflict would not reach a swift resolution, the city removed all temporary tents and barracks from public parks but left the structures in City Hall Park intact.»
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