Two floors of exhibits will take you on a journey from the very beginning of the Civil War to Reconstruction and beyond. Located in downtown Richmond on the James River, the museum sits on the site of the Tredegar Iron Works. Cannons made at Tredegar fired the first shots of the Civil ...
Explore the historic Civil War sites Richmond has to offer from the Museum and White House of the Confederacy to following Abe Lincoln's steps.
Civil War center tops Richmond sites.Focuses on several tourist attractions in Richmond, Virginia. Richmond Civil War Visitor Center opened by the National Park Service; Children's Museum of Richmond; Nature Center at Maymont country estate; Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden....
Museum of the Confederacy & Confederate White House Richmond Virginia The Museum of the Confederacy at 1201 E. Clay Street, Richmond, Virginia, is right next door to the Confederate White House. Jefferson Davis and his family resided there during the Civil War. The Museum is spectacular, and...
Identification of a Snakeskin Belt in the American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia On 11 December 1928 a belt, presumed by the donor to be alligator skin, was presented to the Arkansas Room of the Confederate Museum1, which at the time wa... BS Gray - 《Bulletin of the Maryland Her...
James I. “Bud” Robertson Jr., one of the most distinguished names in the study of Civil War history, died Nov. 2 in Richmond, Va. He was 89. Virginia Tech Professor Emeritus James I. “Bud” Robertson died November 2, 2019. He was 89. ...
I’m always looking to grow my Civil War collection if you have any Southern weapons and are looking to sell them give me a shout maybe we can make a deal. 1864 Richmond Carbine Posted onJune 20, 2019 3 1864 Richmond Armory Carbine ...
Opening in 2000, The American Civil War Center at Tredegar is the nation’s first museum to interpret the Civil War from Union, Confederate and African American perspectives. As with many nonprofit museums, ACWC needed an annual report that could hold its own against larger organizations, but ...
Officials of the Museum of the Confederacy may take its collections to a statewide system of facilities while maintaining a headquarters and research center in Richmond. A memorial service was held for Confederate Colonel Robert Alexander Smith in Scotland....
Dead Confederates, A Civil War Era Blog In 1870, not long before Robert E. Lee’s death, John Singleton Mosby visited him while both happened to be in Richmond.Mosby recalled accompanying George Pickett when the latter wanted to call on Lee, but didn’t want to do so alone: ...