Latest Past Events

The Wound Dresser

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

Discover the man behind the poetry, as Garrett Peck introduces us to Walt Whitman the poet, the nurse, the brother, the lover, the clerk, the myth, and the man.

Free

Halloween Ghost Tour

National Museum of Civil War Medicine 48 East Patrick Street, Frederick

Spend Halloween in the most haunted building in Frederick for an exclusive ghost tour.  On the creepiest evening on the calendar, tour this historic structure, exploring the building’s history as they walk through the darkened galleries and offices. Staff and volunteers will share stories of Civil War embalmers, the building’s most infamous tenants, and their first-hand […]