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were all reorganized under the general name of cavalry.
To Major Barry were intrusted the details of the artillery establishment; and Major Barnard was directed to construct a system of defenses for Washington City, on both sides of the Potomac.
In the course of a few months every considerable
eminence in the vicinity of the National Capital was crowned with a fort or redoubt well mounted.
Early in the following year the number of these works was fifty-two, whose names and locations are indicated on the accompanying map.1 This system of works was so complete, that at no time afterward, duing the war did the Confederates ever seriously attempt to assail them.
At no time was the Capital in danger from external foes.
The work of organization was performed with such energy, that in the place of a raw and disorganized army of about fifty thousand men, in and around Washington City, at the close of July
there was, at the end of fifty dayso, a force of at least one hundred thousand men, well organized and offered, equipped and disciplined.
Of these, full seventy-five thousand were then in a condition to be placed in column for active operations.
The entire force under McClellan's command, at that time, including those under Dix, at Baltimore, was one hundred and fifty-two thousand
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