Fort Marcy Park is a public park located in Fairfax County, Virginia. It is administered by the National Park Service as part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Official website: http://www. ... The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ... The George Washington Memorial Parkway, known to local motorists simply as the G.W. Parkway, is a parkway maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. ...

Entrance to Fort Marcy Park, photos and maps

History

At the end of the Civil War in 1865, the system of fortications (now known as Fort Circle Parks) which surrounded Washington, D.C. were dismantled. The lumber and other materials were sold at auctions and the land returned to pre-war owners. Fort Marcy is approximately 1/2 mile south of the Potomac River on the south side of the Chain Bridge Road leading from Chain Bridge to Langley and McLean, Virginia. The perimeter of the fort is 338 feet (103 m). When completed, the fort mounted 18 guns, a 10-inch (25 cm) mortar and two 24-pound (10 kg) Coehorn mortars. The batteries were aimed toward the south and west. Combatants Union (remaining U.S. states) Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincoln† Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties KIA: 110,000 Total dead: 360,000 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 94,000 Total dead: 258,000 Wounded: 137,000+  The... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ... The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States (USA). ... Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. ... Boundaries of the McLean CDP as of 2003. ...

The hill on which the fort is located was known as Prospect Hill. Originally the fort was called Fort Baldy Smith, after General William Farrar Smith, the troops of whose division began construction of the work. His division crossed Chain Bridge on the night of September 24, 1861 and immediately commenced construction of Fort Marcy and Fort Ethan Allen. The 79th New York Highlanders, the 141st Pennsylvania and the Iron Brigade also helped complete the work in the fall of 1862. A force of about 500 contrabands were also employed and the 152nd New York worked on the entrenchments, which incidentally are still in a very good state of preservation. The site of Fort Marcy is near the location where the famous but bloodless duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph was fought in 1826. William F. Baldy Smith William Farrar Smith (February 17, 1824 – February 28, 1903), was a civil engineer, a police commissioner, and Union general in the American Civil War. ... The Chain Bridge is a bridge across the Potomac River at the Little Falls in Washington, D.C. It connects the city with Arlington County, Virginia. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Fort Ethan Allen was a cavalry outpost in the U.S. state of Vermont named for American Revolutionary War figure Ethan Allen. ... Henry Clay Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA – June 29, 1852 in Washington, D.C.) was a leading American statesman and orator who served in both the House of Representatives and Senate. ... Autographed portrait of John Randolph John Randolph (June 2, 1773 - May 24, 1833) was a Representative and a Senator from Virginia, USA. He was born in Cawsons, Virginia, and was known as John Randolph of Roanoke to distinguish him from relatives. ...

The fort was not entirely completed until the fall of 1862. It is a relatively undisturbed fort and was named in honor of a native of Massachusetts, Randolph B. Marcy, a distinguished soldier and father-in-law and chief of state to General George B. McClellan. Detachments of the 4th New York and 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery and the 130th Pennsylvania infantry were among the troops that performed garrison duty here during the war. An interesting incident of history is that the body of troops which afterwards became famous and the "Iron Brigade" was originated at this fort in the summer of 1861 and was composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th and 7th Wisconsin Regiments. The 24th Michigan was added to the brigade soon after the Battle of South Mountain. These regulars remained together until the close of the war. Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Boston Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq. ... Randolph Barnes Marcy (April 9, 1812 - November 22, 1887) was a career officer in the United States Army, achieving the rank of Brigadier General before retiring in 1881. ... George McClellan George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general, second commander of the Army of the Potomac, and the General-in-Chief of the Union Army during the first years of the American Civil War. ... Battle of South Mountain Conflict American Civil War Date September 14, 1862 Place Frederick County and Washington County Result Union victory The Battle of South Mountain was a battle of the American Civil War, considered by some to be prelude to the Battle of Antietam. ...

Recent history as famous crime scene

Vincent Foster

Fort Marcy Park: where Vincent Foster's body was found on July 20, 1993

The park is perhaps best known for being where the body of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was found shortly before 6 P.M. on July 20, 1993. Officials ruled his death a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot, but three federal judges attached evidence of witness intimidation and murder to the Official Report of the Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Associate Independent counsel Brett Kavanaugh authored the final Report on the death of Vincent Foster. Image File history File links Vince_Foster. ... Vince Foster Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ...

In 1995, former Associate Independent counsel Miquel Rodriguez stated that there was tampering with the crime scene when the FBI re-landscaped Fort Marcy Park destroying evidence of park trails and entrances.

And do you really know what the egress and, and access is, ah, to the Park. You have to go back to 1993. You have to go back to prior to the body being found and find out what access there was, who knew about that access, um, and how is it changed. That is the whole point, you're, again you guys really have to understand they've re-landscaped it prior to this � you know, they, they've changed gates, they've changed paths, they've changed trees, they've filled gullies, they've redefined the slope. You know the whole thing was changed when I was there. The whole area has been re-landscaped.

Assistant U.S. attorney Rodriguez informed members of the American media about the murder cover-up but no stories were reported. Reed Irvine, Chairman of Accuracy in Media, tape recorded his conversations with Mr. Rodriguez and the transcripts are available online.

Source

• Fort Marcy Park at the National Park Service website
• Report On the death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr., by the Office of Independent Counsel in Re: Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association. Available from the government printing office as document number 028-004-00095-8, 137 pages, $14.
• Failure of the Public Trust