The president watched the fighting as Confederate sharpshooters fired upon the fort. President Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and members of the president’s cabinet traveled to Fort Stevens to observe the two-day battle. Fort Stevens and nearby Fort DeRussy led the defense of the capital as skirmishes broke out. In July 1864, Confederate troops under the leadership of General Jubal Early attempted to invade Washington. Thomas’ encounter with the stranger was a story she told throughout her life, helping her story to gain recognition as part of the history of Fort Stevens. As soldiers removed her belongings, a tall, slender man dressed in black approached her and said, “It is hard, but you shall reap a great reward.” The man offering comfort was believed to be President Lincoln. According to Thomas, at the time her house was being demolished she was holding her six-month old baby and weeping beneath a sycamore tree. In September 1861, Union troops took possession of her land and ultimately destroyed her home, barn, orchard and garden to build Fort Massachusetts, later renamed Fort Stevens. The Thomas’ Seventh Street Turnpike property, then owned by Elizabeth and her siblings, was an ideal and necessary location for a fort. William Morris Smith, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Major influences on the piece include Pier Paolo Passolini, Louis Malle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Stanley Kubrick.Īvailable exclusively on Archive.Company F, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery at Fort Stevens, District of Columbia, August 1865 Selected to the University of Michigan's Campus Video Network for submission to screen at their public short film showcase, a Conversation with Angels is a 2013 black and white fantasy film directed by Chrystian Tracey and produced by Jennifer Proctor.Ī senior thesis, the production commenced over the course of 6 days in the fall of 2013 using the scholarship winnings the director had received from the university's writing awards (In the Red, 2012, top prize), the original production blends three different eras of Euorpean cinema of the middle to late 20th century (Italian Neorealist, French New Wave and New German Cinema).
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