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  • Artifact of the Month | Armor Breastplate with Tassets
    July 12, 2018

    By Robert Hancock, Senior Curator

     

    This armor breastplate was taken from an officer in the 5th New York Cavalry on May 24, 1862, during the First Battle of Winchester, part of “Stonewall” Jackson’s Valley Campaign.  The

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  • #AskACWM | Confederate Post-War Occupations
    July 3, 2018

     

    Today we launch a new blog series - #AskACWM - where we bring the best and most interesting questions we get on social media and put them to our staff to respond. To kick things off, we have a tweet. 

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  • Then the Yankees Came…: Federal Commanders in Occupied Richmond, 1865-70
    June 25, 2018

    By Guest Blogger Brig. Gen. John Mountcastle 

     

    On April 3, 1865, Federal troops prepared to march into Richmond. A cavalry detachment under Majors Stevens and Graves moved up the Osborne Turnpike, east of Richmond. Here

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  • Artifact of the Month | POW Ring
    June 8, 2018
    By Robert Hancock, Head Curator 
     
    According to one wartime visitor to the White House, "The walls and mantels of her (Varina Davis, wife of President Jefferson Davis) reception room were almost covered with chains and all
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  • House 200 | The President's Guard
    May 22, 2018

    By John Coski, Historian

    Waite Rawls’ May 12th “House 200” program on President Jefferson Davis’ military aides who occasionally worked at the Confederate executive mansion begs an obvious question: Was there any kind of guard

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