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It was in danger of being surrounded by enemy states.

DC was actually a slave-state itself for the first few months of the war, although slave-trading had been outlawed there.

Virginia was one of the slave-states of the Upper South that was lukewarm about secession, but voted Confederate after Fort Sumter.

Maryland nearly went the same way, which is why Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, in order to jail some of the state's pro-Southern leaders.

Washington then became a strongly fortified city, which seemed impregnable, though the Confederates did manage to get very close to it at certain times.

Remember - from the roof of the White House, you could actually see Robert E. Lee's house.

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