Delaney House

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(10-17-2016 08:03 PM)Craig Hipkins Wrote:  Thanks! I was doing a little research on the 57th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and noticed that a lot of the soldiers were mustered out there. I' m wondering if it was a private residence, or an inn of some sort. I'll dig a little deeper to see if I can find out anything.

At civilwartalk.com, on January 1, 2015, Dennis Urban wrote:
Information posted in 2005 on 2 replies at H-Net Discussion Networks says the house is/was on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral and may have served as its rectory. The cathedral construction, however, was not begun until 1907. In 1865, the house would have been a large private home in northwest DC. The First Division, IX Corps has headquartered near there at war's end and the house served as a muster-out point for several regiments including the 2nd MI Infantry.