The bullet that killed Lincoln, the shattered leg of a Civil War general and a 300-year-old autopsy kit: Military museum reveals morbid artefacts from America's past

The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln is mounted under glass, like a diamond in a snow globe, in its new home at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

The lead ball and several skull fragments from the 16th president are in a tall, antique case overlooking a Civil War exhibit in a museum gallery in Silver Spring, just off the Capital Beltway.


The military museum, known for its collection of morbid oddities, moved in September from the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.  Read Here