45VA21 U S Government Printing Office Form

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[Music] on March 4th 1861 there were two inaugurations in Washington DC Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States and the US government printing office opened for business gopo setup shop in a printing plant originally built by Cornelius Wendell a longtime contract printer for congress Congress purchased the building at the corner of North Capital and H streets for $135,000 it was the largest printing plant in Washington and one of the largest in the United States the first head of GOP was John D defreze an Illinois newspaper publisher politician and friend of President Lincoln as the nation plunged into Civil War gopo grew rapidly to keep Pace with printing needs military and civilian alike in 1864 GPO employees participated more directly in the war when company F of the Interior Department regiment composed of Goo printers and pressmen marched into Northwest Washington to help repel Confederate forces under General jubil early at the climax of his raid o