but wasn't until after the tragic events of the assassination of president linchingon that the museum moved into its first long-term residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the national mall in a building built in the 1880 that we family call the old red brick in a building that is no longer there, but was in the location where the gallery is today. and the museum moved in 1968 from its now former location on the national mall to walter reed army medical center in washington, d.c.,, where it was housed for 0 years before moving to silver spring where we are today. the museum today is a museum of 25 million objects. most of those are in five major collections, but the general cyst of that, that collection, the core of the 25 million objects is in civil war medicine and that's the tour that we are about to start today. and so, come along. we are inside our civil war medicine exhibit here at the national museum of health and medicine and starting our visit in front of the skull here of an individual from a particularly renowned african-american regular meant,

she will read an excerpt from president linchingon's address from the capitol the newly constructed dome behind him. the north stood on the brink of victory. nadia duncan. . [applause] nadia: all thoughts were directing to an impending civil war. all dreaded it, all thought to avert it. while the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted alltogether to saving the union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war, seeking to dissolve the union and divide facts by negotiation. both parties hated war, but one of them would make war, rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war, rather than let it perish, and the war came. one ace one-eighth of the whole population were slaves and localized in the southern part of it. these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interests and knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war to strengthen, perpetrate and extend this interest, was the object for which the insurgents would render the union, even by war. neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the