Sunday, October 31, 2010

Museum and White House of the Confederacy

After the Civil War ended everything from the Confederate White House was sold at auction. . . all but three things which have never left the White House, one of them being a fireplace. The Preservation Society has been able to locate about 70% of the original furnishings to the house and were about to restore them. Again because of copy right laws we could not take pictures from inside the house and only the outside.
On the Walls of the White House are pictures of George Washington. They revered George and saw him as the Grandfather of the Confederacy. The Confederates thought that they were fighting for their own freedoms to a different kind of Free World.


Outside the White House of the Confederacy.

Keria looking out of a Scare Crow at the end of the Confederacy Museum.

Virginia Mourning her death.

A wooden leg and some medical tools.

Jefferson Davis' Jacket, the President of the Confederacy.

Pieces of the Confederate Flag.

Paraphernalia used in the Battle of Gettysburg.

Paraphernalia used the the Battle of Shiloh.

Paraphernalia used the the Battle of Manassas.

One of the earlier Confederate Flags, it seemed to close to the American Flag so they discontinued its use.

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