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    The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum will be closed Thursday, December 25. We will reopen the following day on Friday, December 26, 2025.

  • How Civil War Medicine Killed President James Garfield

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    When an assassin’s bullet struck James Garfield in July 1881, the battle to save the president’s life began. In the weeks that followed, doctors argued over how to treat the stricken executive. In the end, Dr. D. Willard Bliss, a former Civil War surgeon, took control of Garfield’s recovery and controversy has […]

    free with museum admission

  • “All the Elements of Sublimity and Terror”: Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War

    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    “All the Elements of Sublimity and Terror”: Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War - Stephen A. Goldman, M.D., LFACLP, DLFAPA       War has existed almost since the dawn of civilization, with its horrors the subject of poems, novels, histories, and memoirs for centuries, and movies since cinema began. At the same […]

    Free with museum admission

  • CLOSED

    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum will be closed Thursday, November 27 - Saturday, November 29. We will reopen the following week on Thursday, December 3, 2025.

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum will be closed Thursday, December 25 - Thursday, January 1. We will reopen on Friday, January 2, 2026.

  • Dr. Alexander Augusta: The U.S. Army’s First Black Surgeon

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    Learn the incredible story of the highest-ranking African American in the Civil War! Join us at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office on February 28 at 2:00 PM as historian and re-enactor Dr. Michael A. Hill presents the story of Brevet Lt. Col. Alexander T. Augusta, M.D.: the first African American to be commissioned […]

    free with museum admission

  • Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series: Women Who Fought in the Civil War

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    Please bring your lunch and enjoy a 30 minute lecture at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum! Disguised and Determined: Women Who Fought in the Civil War There are hundreds of documented cases of women who fought disguised as men during the Civil War. Tracey McIntire and Audrey Scanlan-Teller, PhD will […]

    $5

  • Women of the Civil War Walking Tour at Congressional Cemetery

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    Congressional Cemetery 1801 E St SE, Washington, DC, United States

    Women’s contributions during the American Civil War were substantial. Thousands on both sides served as nurses, while others manufactured ammunition. Some even took up arms in the battle between North and South.   Historic Congressional Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous women who had active roles in the deadliest American […]

    $10

  • Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    Join us Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 2PM for a book talk on Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America by Scott Ellsworth. By the late summer of 1864, the outcome of the Civil War was far from certain.  Virginia […]

    Free with museum admission

  • Lincoln in New England: In Search of His Forgotten Tours

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    David J. Kent will discuss his most recent book, Lincoln in New England: In Search of His Forgotten Tours. Lincoln in New England revisits the important towns where Lincoln spoke and the pivotal figures that helped define the great issues leading to the Civil War. Readers join native New Englander and Lincoln […]

    Free with Museum Admission

  • Fashion on the Front Lines: Dressing America in the Civil War

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    Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United States

    How do clothing and conflict intertwine? What can a hoop skirt, a soldier’s shirt, or a nurse’s apron reveal about a country at war with itself? Join Emma Rowland at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum on July 11, 2026 at 2PM for an immersive journey into the clothing and material culture […]

    Free with Museum Admission