The Death of Colonel Ellsworth
The first Union officer killed in the Civil War was a friend of President Lincoln's
By Owen Edwards
Civil War Artifacts in the Smithsonian
The museum collections house many items from the Civil War, including photographs, uniforms and personal diaries
By Smithsonian.com
Ed Bearss, Man of History
On any Civil War battlefield, the historian and tour leader strikes the mystic chords of memory
By Adam Goodheart
Mr. Lincoln's Washington
The house where the conspirators hatched their heinous plot now serves sushi, and the yard where they were hanged is a tennis court.
By Christopher Buckley
The Smithsonian in the Civil War
In its early days, the Smithsonian faced the Civil War, a disastrous fire and a vastly uncertain future
By I. Michael Heyman
