Washington Navy Yard
Naval works, Washington, District of Columbia.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
The Ordnance Department's Laboratory Division made naval shells and gunpowder, and women sewed powder bags, signal flags and ensigns for about $1.00 a day. The yard repaired USS Monitor after the Battle of Hampton Roads. John A. Dahlgren took over when Franklin Buchanan joined the Confederacy.
Then
The Ordnance Department's Laboratory Division made naval shells and gunpowder, and about two dozen women sewed canvas powder bags, signal flags and ensigns for about $1.00 a day. The yard repaired USS Monitor after the Battle of Hampton Roads.
Commandant Franklin Buchanan resigned to join the Confederacy, and John A. Dahlgren took over. After Lincoln's assassination the captured conspirators were brought to the yard, and Booth's body was identified aboard the monitor Montauk moored there.
Now
Museum
The yard is home to the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Sea Systems Command and the National Museum of the United States Navy, and is a National Historic Landmark.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 0.4 miles away.
Nearby
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