Fort Slocum
Civil War Defenses of Washington
No visible evidence remains of Fort Slocum, which stood here and across Kansas Avenue to your left.
Cannon mounted at Fort Totten helped repulse a Confederate attack on Fort Stevens, July 11-12, 1864.
Marker is at the intersection of Kansas Avenue and Nicholson Street, on the right when traveling south on Kansas Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
