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  • Spiritualism at Surratt: A Descent into the Macabre Archives

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

    The Civil War made death far more common and only deepened people’s longing for a connection with the spirit world. The archives and collections at the Surratt House Museum Research Center are full of references to these macabre practices and chilling recorded ghost stories. This talk will focus on the efforts collections […]

    Free with museum admission

  • CLOSED

    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

  • Walking Tour: Clara Barton’s Washington, D.C.

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

    Join us as we step back into Civil War Washington, D.C. through the eyes of Clara Barton. On Saturdays at 1 p.m., Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum docents will guide guests through the neighborhood that Clara Barton lived in during the Civil War. Beginning at 437 7th Street NW, the boarding […]

    $15

  • Dr. Charles Leale and the Medical Treatment of Abraham Lincoln

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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! Dr. Charles Leale and the Medical Treatment of Abraham Lincoln Surgeon General Joseph Barnes witnessed Abraham Lincoln's autopsy on April 15th, 1865, recalling, "There it lay upon the white china, a little black mass […]

    $5

  • Walking Tour: Clara Barton’s Washington, D.C.

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

    Join us as we step back into Civil War Washington, D.C. through the eyes of Clara Barton. On Saturdays at 1 p.m., Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum docents will guide guests through the neighborhood that Clara Barton lived in during the Civil War. Beginning at 437 7th Street NW, the boarding […]

    $15