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- Lincoln: Visit his retreat, President Lincoln’s Cottage, his church, New York Avenue Presbyterian, and the box he sat in on the night of his assassination at Ford’s Theatre.
- Mary Surratt: Visit her boarding house in Chinatown (now Wok and Roll restaurant), her church, St. Patrick’s, and her gravesite at Mt. Olivet Cemetery
- Clara Barton:Â A new museum honoring the famed Civil War relief worker and American Red Cross founder is planned to open in the building that once housed her apartment and Civil War Missing Soldiers Office.
- International Spy Museum: Learn the personal stories of Civil War spies.
- National Archives: View Army records from individual soldiers
- Tudor Place: Read correspondence from a family with relatives that fought on both sides
- Decatur House: Home to the Confederate Secretary of State Judah Benjamin before the war, but served as the headquarters for the Commissary General during the war. The house’s slave quarters illustrate what life was like for slaves that worked at the house just before the Civil War broke out.
- Petersen House: The residence where Lincoln died was home to German tailor William Petersen.
- Congressional Cemetery: Home to gravesites of Lincoln assassination conspirators and other notables of the era
- History on Foot interpretive walking tours from Ford’s Theatre: Costumed guides relate the stories of Elizabeth Keckley, Mrs. Lincoln’s confidante, and Detective McDermott, who pursued John Wilkes Booth after the assassination.
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