100th Anniversary of Lincoln Memorial--Lincoln & Civil War Tour of D.C.!

100th Anniversary of Lincoln Memorial--Lincoln & Civil War Tour of D.C.! May 27!

May 27, 5:30 pm, meet outside Library of Congress!

The area from the Capitol Building grounds through downtown D.C. to Ford’s Theater has an astonishing number of buildings and locales on noteworthy events and personalities of the Civil War. And relating to the life and death of President Lincoln. This unique walking tour, on the weekend centennial of the Lincoln Memorial, will touch on the startling episodes that occurred on those very streets.

Meet at the Neptune Fountain in front of the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, on 1st St., N.E.

Length of tour: About 2.25 hours.

Some of our action-packed itinerary!:

• The tour begins at the site of Rep. Lincoln's 1848 lodging, and describes the wild events there that helped spark the Civil War

• Controversies in building the Lincoln Memorial

• The place which inspired an Oscar-winning movie, and where a plot to assassinate Southern leaders and President James Buchanan was hatched!

• The largest slave escape of all

• The Civil War’s unknown great photographer

• The man who killed John Wilkes Booth—or did he?

• Jefferson's prophecy of civil war

• Site of President Lincoln's inaugural addresses

• The most studied soldier in American history

• The Pr*son for Confederates and "contrabands"

• Senate sites of bloody regional disputes

• The secret society of “free men of color”

• Workplace of the most famous caregiver in American history, and the nearly impossible task Lincoln gave her

• Sculptor of the Union Army’s grand pension building, and of Confederate statues too

• The little-known, unsolved attempt to K*ll Lincoln

• The great inventor who divided the North

• The 1830s D.C. riot that presaged the Civil War

• The military nurse who was the country’s most eminent poet

• The riotous brawls between North—and North!

• The North vs. South fracas that began in the home of the Capitol architect’s wife

• Surprising perches of black abolitionists

• The astonishing plot to K*ll Confederate President Jefferson Davis

• The errant bodyguard Mrs. Lincoln blamed for her husband’s M**der

• John Wilkes Booth’s other targets and schemes

• The Lincoln conspirators’ horrific fate

• How the first attempt at secession was cleverly thwarted

• Tragic locale of another assassinated President and Army veteran

• The general who saved the Union, and was backed by the South

• The Grand Army of the Republic

• Possible quick stop at National Portrait Gallery's Civil War collection

• The roots of Lincoln’s soaring rhetoric

Your guide is a former writer for the “Tonight Show”, and ex-White House speechwriter, the writer of books on politics & history:

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-Presidents-Washington-Theodore-Roosevelt-ebook/dp/B01K0NT0CK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1470725131&sr=1-1&keywords=two+term+jinx

https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capital-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/1493055909

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Host or Publisher Ed Moser