lincoln administration, but he's battling around extracting 200 grand from them. okay. priorities. a sect factor, thermometer, or up in maryland that i farm near sandy springs, stood in the mid 90s. the drought had been in the region for weeks on end. the marching columns went through 6-inch dust on even the -- certainly not like we have now with i-270. probably took them just as long to get through the dust as we do going up 270. but all these delays get to our main point about the battle of ft. stevens. ft. stevens had been set up as ft. massachusetts, based on a camp brightwood out here in the brightwood section of washington, as early as 1861. after the previous invasion of maryland in 1862, they expanded ft. massachusetts, who obviously had been built by massachusetts soldiers into ft. stevens, you can still see and we'll talk about that, the restored pa parapet, but otherwise everybody goes out, where is the fort? either thinking they're going to find a western stockade or more like ft. member hen re, ft. washington. ft. stevens was an expanded earthen fort with a stockaded back side to it. that saved labor, money and all that sort of thing, 1