Kathryn Allamong Jacob is curator of manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. She is the author of Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., also published by Johns Hopkins, and Capital Elites: High Society in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War.
       
              
  
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          King of the Lobby
          The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
        
         
        
        
       
     
   
 
  
    
      
      
          Testament to Union
          Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.
        
  Kathryn Allamong Jacob
photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg