Ceremonial Sword from Lincoln's Funeral
date: label: date made
content: 1864
name: label: patient; referenced
content: Lincoln, Abraham
label: referenced
content: Leale, Charles
label: maker
content: United States Army
notes: label: Description
content: U.S. Medical Staff Officer Dr. Charles Leale wore this sword while serving in the honor guard for Lincoln’s body when it lay in state at the White House and the U.S. Capitol, April 1865. Leale was on duty at Ford’s Theatre the night of the assassination and was the first doctor to reach the dying president.
label: Description
content: Bequest of Helen Leale Harper, Dr Charles Leale’s granddaughter, 2006
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: referenced
content: Presidency
label: commemorating
content: Presidency
label: related event
content: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Presidential History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Leale
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0251.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0251
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0251.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sword
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 95.25 cm x 11.43 cm x 1.27 cm