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Civil War medical instruments were among exhibits and items displayed in tents erected by the National Park Service.  

Civil War Re-enactors who participated on the program (left to right):

           U.S.C.T. Ben Hawley, Bobbie Coles, Donise Stevens [Elizabeth Thomas], Patricia Tyson [Hallie Quinn Brown], Theresa Saxton [Charlotte Forten Grimke] Joyce Bailey [Elizabeth Keckley] and U.S.C.T. Malcolm Beech

 
Attendees included Military Road School alumnus Beatrice Liggins, who sang the National Anthem, Dr. Frank Smith, Founding Director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, American University students and their professor Claudia Anyaso
Ward Four Councilmember Muriel Bowser addressed attendees gathered at the Fort Stevens battleground

Lincoln-Thomas Day Observance

On Saturday, September 17, 2011, MRSPT, organized a program to commemorate Lincoln-Thomas Day.  The National Federation of Colored Women’s Club of America in session August 3-6, 1924 at Chicago, Illinois, designated September 22, 1924, as a Memorial Day in honor of President Abraham Lincoln and Elizabeth Thomas, who was known as the owner of Fort Stevens.