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Just off the bus in Washinton City, we head
straight for Ford's Theater, which is only a block from our hotel. |
The interior has been reconstructed to look
as it did in April 14, 1865. Here is the box where President
Lincoln sat that fateful night and Melissa awaiting the presentation. |
Downstairs is a wonderful museum. This is
the gun that Booth used to shoot Lincoln - a .44 calibur single-shot
percussion pistol manufactured by Henry Deringer of Philadelphia. |
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When Booth leaped to the stage his spur caught
on a flag decorating the President's box. This Treasury Guards
regimental flag is thought to be the one. Note tear at right. |
Directly across the street from Ford's Theater
is the Peterson House, a boarding house in 1865 to which the
dying Lincoln was taken. |
Plaque on the Peterson House. |
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Front parlor of the Peterson House. In this
room, Mary Lincoln grieved between visits to her husband's bedside.
She spent most of the night in this room. |
The boarder's bedroom in which Lincoln died.
The original furniture is in the collection of the Chicago Historical
Society. http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/deathbed.html |
After lunch at TGI Fridays, Roy, Erik, Melissa,
Laurene and I went for a walk. Looking down Pennsylvania Avenue
from Freedom Plaza. (It's HOT and MUGGY!) |
