Today’s entry was researched by “Tales from Buzzard Point” Series Editor David Rusk.
One revelation in “The Black and Red Band,” the newly-discovered adventure of Sherlock Holmes, really piqued my curiosity. It was the cabbie’s reason for refusing to drive Holmes and Watson from the Willard Hotel all the way into Buzzard Point: “T’is haunted, cursed ground. Ever since thuh war.”
Though no battles were fought near the City of Washington (except for Confederate General Early’s attack on Fort Stevens in 1864), the national capital was filled with tens of thousands of union troops (and hospitals to care for casualties) throughout the conflict.