the black people that were able to cross the potomac above the city and make their way to battery kimbleified hope, but not simply hope. not simply freedom or security. they also symbolize opportunity and i recently was recalling a story about a black man caught on the navy yard bridge trying to get into d.c. he told the union troops. he had walked 60 miles just to come here. he believed that under the capital dome, there would be freedom as well as justice as well as opportunities. we don't have to go to the capitol to find that out. you want to walk with me down georgia avenue, about a half mile, a quarter pliel to the intersection of georgia and missouri, we'd probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of the, of another camp and in that camp, we would find in the book where this cruel war is over, the civil war letters of charles harvey brewster, the touching story of a place called camp rightwood and how this union officer, this man from the 10th massachusetts was changed when he met a freedom cñ seeking black man just 40 miles down the road who came in and worked for. . he is a brig