D.C.'s Newest Lincoln Monument to be Unveiled on September 22

A statue depicting a seated President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation will be formally unveiled in the nation's capital on Monday, September 22, outside the African American Civil War Monument Museum at Vermont Ave. and 14th Street, NW. The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia has been asked to coordinate plans for the event, so we hope for a big turnout of our members in the capital region. Other organizations, including the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a group of descendants of federal Civil War soldiers, are already pitching in, and more organizations are expected to join the effort.

The free, outdoor program will feature speakers, including Lincoln scholar, Lincoln Group member, and Howard University history professor emerita Edna Greene Medford; Civil War-era music; a host of Civil War re-enactors; and Dawn…