Hallowed Ground magazine, Booth's knife, Surratt Tavern

[Wesley Harris]

The Civil War Trust puts out a slick little magazine quarterly called Hallowed Ground. It mostly covers efforts to preserve Civil War battlefields. For the summer edition, the main focus is the Lincoln assassination with a mini-Booth escape tour. The Surratt Tavern is featured prominently with a beautiful exterior photo.

There are also exclusive photos from the recent exhibit at Ford's. There's a photo of the Rio Grande Camp Knife that is usually in storage in Maryland but was once displayed at Ford's as the knife Booth used on Rathbone. We have discussed this knife in detail here as the more likely one to have been used by Booth than the one currently on display. I was surprised to see the photo with the admission that some believe it is the correct knife. I wonder if NPS has softened its position that "the knife" is the one on display at Ford's?

I do not know if Hallowed Ground is available without being a member of the Civil War Trust. http://www.civilwar.org