Henry Ulke, an immigrant from Transylvania, Prussia, was a prominent photographer and portrait painter in Washington, DC around the time of the American Civil War. Over 100 of his paintings and photographs still hang today in prominent government buildings in our nation's capital. So how did Henry Ulke and his brother, Julius, end up in the room with Congressmen, Cabinet members, clergy, and Lincoln family members at the Petersen house across from Ford's Theater the night President Lincoln was shot? It is certainly an intriguing tale that needs to be told.