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. Grand Review of the Armies May 1865 The British intended to burn the building to the ground They set fire to the southern wing first the flames grew so quickly that the British were prevented from collecting enough wood to burn the stone walls completely However the Library of Congress's contents in the northern wing contributed to the flames on that side. Among the items destroyed was the 3,000-volume collection of the Library of Congress and the intricate decorations of the neoclassical columns pediments and sculptures Later though former president Thomas Jefferson donated his personal book collection to start a new Library of Congress, originally designed by William Thornton in 1793 and Benjamin Latrobe in 1803 the wooden ceilings and floors burned and the glass skylights melted because of the intense heat. But the building was not a complete loss the House rotunda the east lobby the staircases and Latrobe's famous Corn-Cob Columns in the Senate entrance hall all survived the Superintendent of the Public Buildings of the City of Washington Thomas Munroe concluded that the loss to the Capitol amounted to $787,163.28 with $457,388.36 for the North wing and main building and $329,774.92 for the South wing. Lincoln managed his own re-election campaign He sought to reconcile his damaged nation by avoiding retribution against the secessionists a few days after the Battle of Appomattox Court House he was shot by John Wilkes Booth an actor and Confederate sympathizer on April 14 1865 and died the following day Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the United States' martyr hero He is consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as among the greatest U.S presidents. Senegambia (Mandinka Fula Wolof) 14.5 David Davis December 1 1862 December 8 1862, Major Tributaries of the Potomac River and Area Drained, 11.1 Loyalist expatriation Washington's cabinet members formed rival parties with sharply opposing views most fiercely illustrated between Hamilton and Jefferson. He restricted cabinet discussions to topics of his choosing without participating in the debate He occasionally requested cabinet opinions in writing and expected department heads to agreeably carry out his decisions. .

. . Vines and Groundcover of the Potomac River Basin, However the national government had no money either to pay the war debts owed to European nations and the private banks or to pay Americans who had been given millions of dollars of promissory notes for supplies during the war Nationalists led by Washington Alexander Hamilton and other veterans feared that the new nation was too fragile to withstand an international war or even internal revolts such as the Shays' Rebellion of 1786 in Massachusetts They convinced Congress to call the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 and named their party the Federalist party the Convention adopted a new Constitution which provided for a much stronger federal government including an effective executive in a check-and-balance system with the judiciary and legislature the Constitution was ratified in 1788 after a fierce debate in the states over the nature of the proposed new government the new government under President George Washington took office in New York in March 1789. James Madison spearheaded Congressional amendments to the Constitution as assurances to those who were cautious about federal power guaranteeing many of the inalienable rights that formed a foundation for the revolution and Rhode Island was the final state to ratify the Constitution in 1791, Today more than 100 battlefields and historic sites of the American Revolution are protected and maintained by the government the National Park Service alone owns and maintains more than 50 battlefield parks and sites related to the Revolution the American Battlefield Trust preserves almost 700 acres of battlefield land in six states. . 4.5 Valley Forge and Monmouth 10 Footnotes Pay and benefits Night scene depicting Washington at center standing among officers and Indians around a lamp holding a war council Related topics[show].