DC TRIP: The Last of the Gettysburg Dioramas

Yep, here are more dioramas,with closer looks at each. This first scene shows the Iron Brigade capturing the Rebs in the Railroad Cut.

Here's General Meade's HQ on Cemetary Hill.

This one recreates a famous photo taken in the Devil's Den.

DC TRIP: Booth did NOT act alone . . .

. . . or so the Military Court ruled, and had these other four people hanged. It's pretty certain Payne and Atzerodt knew what Booth was up to. David Herold was just a fan who did his best to help Booth escape. These rope souvenirs and the rest of this stuff reside in the Ford's Theater museum. 

This lucky duck had a ticket to the hanging.

 George Atzerodt was supposed to kill VP Andrew Johnson, but chickened out. This knife was found in his hotel room.

Lewis Payne (or Powell) did his best to kill Secretary of State Seward with a knife, but it wasn't good enough. He used this gun to bludgeon others in the house. 

Mary Surrat ran the boarding house where the conspirators met. She may or may not have known what they were planning.

The key to Mary's cell.

Shackles worn by Dr. Mudd, who treated Booth's leg when he was on the run, and probably knew nothing of the assassination. He spent a couple of years in prison before being released.

Mudd's handcuffs. 

DC TRIP: Grant and Lee (and other guys) were Here

The chairs and table used at the surrender at Appomattox.

As seen in the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

 Lee sat here. 

Grant got the padded chair.

Grant's field glasses.

Grant's camp chair.

John Mosby's cavalry jacket.

Phil Sheridan's cavalry sword.

William T. Sherman's hat and sword.

DC TRIP: Still More Planes . . .

Lockheed 5B Vega, as flown by Amelia, in the Air and Space Museum

Sorry, I can't identify this one. Can you?

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius

Tsk, tsk. Another mystery plane.

Eastern Airlines DC3

DC TRIP: Presidents Gone Wild

More cool stuff from the Smithsonian Museum of American History - Presidential style . . . 

Harry Truman's vacation shirt

 Warren G. Harding's pajamas

Eisenhower's golf clubs

A fan given away at Babtist churches, sponsored by a mortuary

Kennedys on Mt. Rushmore? Sure, why not.

Congress commissioned this statue in 1832, to celebrate the centennial of George Washington's birth. Scultor Horatio Greenough depicted George in this wacky steam-room pose. It sat in the Capitol Rotunda, then was moved outside for a while, before being tucked away in the Smithsonian in 1908.

DC TRIP: The Tall American

Yeah, we paid another visit to this guy. Hasn't moved a muscle since we saw him ten years ago. His butt must be getting sore.

A 1917 copy of a life mask made in 1860, before Abe ran for President. 

1917 copy of an 1865 life mask.

The hat he wore to Ford's Theater.

One of the pillows he bled on before dying. 

The tower of Lincoln books we saw at the Ford's Theater museum.

This song was running through my head the whole time.