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URBAN DECAY

N JULY 13, 1863, Charles Moulton of the 34th Massachusetts stood on the Maryland bank of the Potomac River and gazed at the lower town of Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Before the war, the town’s busy factories had churned out weapons while residents scuttled about the streets under a mantle of industrial smog. But Moulton viewed a desolate

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