Professional Tour Guide Leads SMCWR through History of Civil War Forts in D.C. Area, April 9 Civil War Roundtable Features Washington, DC Tour Guide Peter MacNeill The Southern Maryland Civil War Roundtable (SMCWR) will host a presentation by licensed Washington, D.C. tour guide Peter MacNeill on Civil War forts in the Washington, D.C. area. The forts varied from rudimentary structures to magnificent engineering marvels and all were constructed to help keep the enemy out of Washington. MacNeill will lecture on location and composition of forts, and their strategic purpose. While most of these forts are gone, some, like Fort DeRussy, Fort Foote, Fort Marcy, Fort Stevens, Fort Ward and Fort Washington are partially or wholly intact. The presentation will be at 7 p.m., April 9 at CSM’s Center for Business and Industry (BI), Chaney Enterprises Conference Room BI-113, 8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata. MacNeill’s fascination for American military history began while watching John Wayne and Errol Flynn movies with his father on Saturday mornings in the 1950s. Since moving to the Washington, D.C. region in 1971, MacNeill has passed the National Park Service Gettysburg battlefield tour guide exam and in 1992 began a career as a licensed Washington, D.C. tour [...]
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