Item No. 1, "Johns Wilkes Booth's Neck Bones," are in our collection but not currently on display here. But in "To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds: Medicine During the Civil War," an exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. are indeed the amputated leg bones of Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, the 3rd Army Corps commander who was wounded at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 and sent the leg to the museum in a coffin-shaped box bearing a visiting card that read: "With the compliments of Major General D.E.S." Admission and parking are free. Please stop by.

Steven Solomon
Public Affairs Officer
National Museum of Health and Medicine