Civil War tour begins Saturday

WASHINGTON -- A new Civil War tour of Washington includes a visit to the newly restored Lincoln Cottage, Abe Lincoln's summer retreat on the campus of the U.S. Armed Forces Retirement Home.

The three-hour tour, "Civil War Washington: Soldiers and Citizens," will be introduced on Memorial Day weekend. It is sponsored by Washington Walks and Cultural Tourism DC.

The tour will be offered at 9:30 a.m. on six Saturdays: May 24 and 31, and June 7, 14, 21 and 28. The cost is $42 per person, which includes admission to the Lincoln Cottage site.

Other stops on the tour include Fort Stevens, which came under attack during the Civil War; the African American Civil War Memorial in the historic Shaw neighborhood; and Peterson House, where Lincoln was taken after being shot. He died there.

Other Washington Walks tours include "Before Harlem, There Was U Street," "Capital Hauntings," "Capitol Hill," "Embassy Row," "Georgetown," "Memorials by Moonlight," "Moveable Feast: A Taste of DC," and "Duke Ellington's D.C."

Details at www.washingtonwalks.com.