Fort Ward

Stronghold Ward is a previous Union Army establishment now situated in the city of Alexandria in the U.S. territory of Virginia. It was the fifth biggest fortification worked to shield Washington, D.C. in the American Civil War. It is as of now very much safeguarded with 90-95% of its earthen dividers intact. Before the episode of the Civil War, Alexandria County, the nearest part of Virginia to Washington, D.C., was a prevalently provincial territory. Initially part of the District of Columbia, the land now involving the province was retroceded to Virginia in a July 9, 1846 demonstration of Congress that produced results in 1847.

Most of the region is uneven, and at the time, a large portion of the region's populace was gathered in the city of Alexandria, at the far southeastern corner of the area. In 1861, whatever is left of the region to a great extent comprised of scattered homesteads, the incidental house, fields for munching domesticated animals, and Arlington House, claimed by Mary Custis, spouse of Robert E. Lee.