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BCWRT Pages Template THE “OLD LINER” NEWSLETTER Gettysburg Seminary Spangler said Schmucker Hall played The museum is expected to be ready a significant role in the first day of the by spring 2013. receives grant for Civil battle. The cupola at the top of the Army museum's oddities War museum building has been a prominent feature By Steve Maroni, The (Hanover, Pa.) for many historians, and was where resettle in Silver Evening Sun, November 7, 2011 Union cavalry Gen. John Buford Spring One of the most historically significant observed the approaching Associated Press, October 21, 2011 Civil War buildings in private hands Confederate army and met with Gen. SILVER SPRING, Md. — The bullet will soon be refurbished into a state- John Reynolds to develop a plan. that killed Abraham Lincoln is of-the-art museum and will be open to Bradley Hoch, chairman of the mounted under glass, like a diamond the public just in time for the 150th Adams County Historical Society in a snow globe, in its new home at anniversary of the Battle of board of directors, said the Union's the National Museum of Health and Gettysburg. First Corps suffered 5,700 casualties Medicine. Schmucker Hall at the Lutheran -- killed, wounded and missing -- out The lead ball and several skull Theological Seminary at Gettysburg of 8,000 soldiers as they defended fragments from the 16th president are was a lookout point and the center of the position at Schmucker Hall, giving in a tall, antique case overlooking a the Union's defenses the first day of the Union time to fortify other key Civil War exhibit in a museum gallery the three-day battle. In the following points along the battlefield. He said in Silver Spring, just off the Capital days, it served as a field hospital for the Union essentially traded lives for Beltway. hundreds of wounded soldiers. time. The military museum, known for its John Spangler, president of the Each floor of the museum will have collection of morbid oddities, moved Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation interpretive displays, bringing to life in September from the former Walter Foundation, said the museum will the history of Schmucker Hall, Reed Army Medical Center in teach people about the building's role Spangler said. Washington. At Walter Reed, visitors in the battle, as well as the The fourth floor will be dedicated to had to pass through a security gate significance of religion in the lives of the events of the first day of the battle and find the museum on the campus, Americans during the Civil War. that occurred around Schmucker Hall. where parking could be a problem. "What's amazing to me is that on both The third floor will follow Schmucker The new building stands outside the sides, Union and Confederate troops Hall's use as a field hospital during gates of Fort Detrick's Forest Glen sat by the fire at night and read from the remainder of the battle, and Annex. Visitors can just drive up, walk the same Bible," Spangler said. through September of that year. in and come face-to-face with a The seminary, along with the Adams The second floor will focus on the perpetually grinning skeleton directing County Historical Society and the moral and social history of the period them to an exhibit on the human preservation foundation, received a and will feature displays on faith, body. There, one can see a hairball $4 million state grant last week for the issues of slavery and freedom, and from the stomach of a 12-year-old girl Voices of History campaign, which the Underground Railroad, Spangler and the amputated leg of a man with will transform the 1832 building into a said. elephantiasis — a disease that four-story, state-of-the-art museum. The first floor will be a reception area. causes limbs to become bloated. The The building, once called the Old The museum will include murals, leg floats upright in a glass jar like an Dorm, has not been in use for artifacts, and audio and video enormous, pickled sausage. students since the 1950s. Currently, displays. It will also feature interactive The museum's collection of 25 million the top two floors are not being used maps and re-creations of hospital objects includes plenty to inspire at all because of unsatisfactory scenes with die-cast statues. fascination or disgust — or both. But heating and cooling and lack of The historical society is packing up it's also a treasure trove for humidity control, but the bottom two artifacts, and moving them out of researchers like Candice Millard, are a part of the historical society, Schmucker Hall in preparation for author of the new book "Destiny of where much of its collection is on construction, which is expected to the Republic," about the display. begin in December. assassination of President James Garfield. She wrote in her BALTIMORE CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE THE “OLD LINER” NEWSLETTER acknowledgements that she held in pound cannonball like the one that hit more than half the land, including her gloved hands at the museum the him during the 1863 Battle of hundreds of acres of undeveloped section of Garfield's spine pierced by Gettysburg. waterfront property and the moated a .44-caliber bullet from Charles Most of the museum's objects, stone fortress itself. Guiteau's gun. including 2,000 microscopes and Tuesday marked Obama's first use of Guiteau's brain and partial skeleton hundreds of thousands of human the Antiquities Act of 1906, which are also in the museum's collection. brain specimens, are in an off-site empowers presidents to designate Deputy Director Tim Clarke Jr. said warehouse. They will be moved by federally owned land of significant the museum will close in January and next spring to a renovated warehouse historical value as a national reopen by May 21 with its largest- across the street from the new monument. Politicians from both ever display of objects to mark its museum. parties supported the idea, which was 150th anniversary. The scope of the Clarke said the requirement to safely first suggested and long advocated exhibits is still being decided, he said. pack, move and unpack each artifact for by a local group of history buffs "We are sure, though, that we are will enable the museum to get a that formed an alliance called programming and planning an exhibit better handle on the number of Citizens for a Fort Monroe National that will astound our visitors," Clarke artifacts in any given collection and Park. said. the grand scope of the entire "This is going to give an opportunity collection. for people from all across the country If You Go... to travel to Fort Monroe and trace the THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF history that has been so important to HEALTH AND MEDICINE is at 2500 making America what it is," Obama Linden Lane in Silver Spring, Md., at said before signing the proclamation. the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex; "I am looking forward to not only http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/ visiting myself, but also taking Malia or 301-319-3300. Open daily 10 a.m.- and Sasha down there so they can 5:30 p.m. Free admission. get a little bit of a sense of their Obama designates Fort history." Obama noted that the first slave ship The bullet that killed President Abraham Lincoln on Monroe as national April 15, 1865 is among the items on display at the to arrive in the Colonies landed at an National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver monument early fort on the site in 1619. More Spring. Photo courtesy National Museum of Health By Julian Walker and Kate Wiltrout, than two centuries later, Fort Monroe and Medecine The Virginian-Pilot, November 2, became a refuge for slaves during the The $12 million relocation established 2011 Civil War and "helped to create the a permanent home for an institution President Barack Obama signed an environment in which Abraham that has had 10 addresses since executive order Tuesday granting Lincoln was able to sign that 1862. That's when Surgeon General national monument status to Fort document up there," he said, pointing William Hammond directed medical Monroe, ending a five-year, to a copy of the Emancipation officers in the field to collect grassroots effort to protect a storied Proclamation. "specimens of morbid anatomy" for spit of land that witnessed the Work on the stone fortress began in study at the newly founded museum beginning and end of slavery in the 1819 under President James Monroe, along with projectiles and foreign United States - and lots of military who sought to protect the fledgling bodies. A photograph nearly covering history in between. democracy from invasion after the one wall of the museum's new Civil Obama's proclamation on Hampton's British navy sailed up the War exhibit shows amputated legs Fort Monroe, which he signed in the Chesapeake Bay and burned stacked like firewood. Oval Office before more than a dozen Washington during the War of 1812. The exhibit also includes the witnesses, signals the start of a new When it was completed in the 1830s, shattered bones of U.S. Army Maj. chapter for the former Army base, the "Gibraltar of the Chesapeake," Gen. Daniel Sickles' lower right leg, built between 1819 and 1834. The surrounded by an 8-foot-deep moat, mounted for display beside a 12- National Park Service will manage enclosed 63 acres. BALTIMORE CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE THE “OLD LINER” NEWSLETTER Fort Monroe was a military base until sat by the fire at night and read from the remainder of the battle, and mid-September, when the Army the same Bible," Spangler said.
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