WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., issued the following news release on April 15, 2022: During the week of the anniversary of the start of the Civil War -- April 12, 1861 -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to recognize and preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington, located in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, by redesignating them as a national historic park. In her introductory statement, Norton said, "Nearly all the individual forts in the Defenses of Washington--on  more PR