Writing as ‘Olivia’, Emily Edson Briggs reported from Washington from the end of the Civil War onward. Her letters describe the new Capitol dome, Lincoln’s birthday, soldiers’ burials, a plea for the freedmen, the prison at Dry Tortugas, congressional quarrels and the receptions of the city’s West End.
A lively, observant record of Reconstruction and Gilded Age Washington. Download the free EPUB.