American Civil War Museum

Tredegar History Tour at 11am & 3pm with musket firing demonstration at 1pm!
2024-07-06 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a guided tour of the Historic Tredegar site and a musket firing demonstration! Included with museum admission.

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White House of the Confederacy Guided Tours Daily!
2024-07-05 11:00 - 16:00
Built in 1818, this National Historic Landmark served as the Confederate Executive Mansion during the war. Guided tours of the restored house–the elegant public rooms as well as the private living quarters–explore the lives of the people who lived and worked there. 1201 East Clay Street, Richmond VA 23219

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Greenback America Exhibit is Open daily at ACWM-Appomattox
2024-07-05 10:00 - 17:00
Visitors will explore how Americans assigned cultural meaning to money, and how doing so helped them interpret politics, patriotism, and race. This temporary exhibit tells the story of how the United States’ decision on how to pay off the Civil War transformed the relationship between the government, the economy, banks, and citizens.

ACWM-Appomattox

Greenback America Exhibit open in ACWM-Appomattox
2024-07-02 08:00 - 17:00 | American Civil War Museum – Appomattox, 159 Horseshoe Rd, Appomattox, Virginia, 24522, United States
Discover how Americans assigned cultural meaning to money and how doing so helped them interpret politics, patriotism, and race. This exhibit explains how the United States’ decision on how to pay off the Civil War transformed the relationship between the government, the economy, banks, and citizens.

American Civil War Museum–Appomattox

159 Horseshoe Rd.Appomattox, VA 24522

Tredegar History Tour at 11am and 3pm + Musket Firing Demonstration at 1pm - every Saturday & Sunday!
2024-07-02 08:00 - 17:00
Find yourself in history on a guided tour of the Historic Tredegar site and see a musket firing demonstration! All included with museum admission.

Daily Guided Tours - The White House of the Confederacy
2024-06-30 08:00 - 17:00 | 1201 East Clay Street, Richmond, VA 23219, Richmond, 23219
Find yourself in history on a guided tour of this National Historic Landmark as you learn about the people who lived and worked there during the Civil War. Consider the value visit by purchasing a multi-site pass to explore our Tredegar site, also in downtown RVA on the Tredegar Riverfront!

Tredegar History Tour every Saturday & Sunday at 11am and 3pm + musket firing demonstrations at 1pm! (included with museum admission).
2024-06-29 11:00 | The American Civil War Museum – Historic Tredegar, 480 Tredegar St., Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States
Every weekend all summer! Included with museum admission.

Join a guided tour of the Historic Tredegar site and watch a musket firing demonstration!

Greenback America Now Open at ACWM-Appomattox!
2024-06-29 10:00 - 17:00 | American Civil War Museum – Appomattox, 159 Horseshoe Rd, Appomattox, Virginia, 24522, United States
Explore how Americans assigned cultural meaning to money and how doing so helped them interpret politics, patriotism, and race. Learn how the United States’ decision about how to pay off the Civil War transformed the relationship between the government, the economy, banks, and citizens.

Tredegar History Tour every Saturday & Sunday at 11am and 3pm with musket firing demonstration at 1pm!
2024-06-22 11:00 | The American Civil War Museum – Historic Tredegar, 480 Tredegar St., Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States
Find yourself in history this summer at the American Civil War Museum!

Join a guided tour of the former Tredegar Iron Works site and see a musket firing demonstration by our historians! Both are included with museum admission. Every Saturday and Sunday this summer!

Thunder in the Harbor: Fort Sumter & the Civil War (virtual program)
2024-06-20 18:30 - 19:30
With Richard W. Hatcher III

This is an VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Fort Sumter. Charleston. April 1861. The bombardment and surrender of Sumter were only the beginning of the story. Both sides understood the military significance of the fort and the busy seaport, which played host to one of the longest, most complicated and fascinating campaigns of the entire Civil War. Join Richard Hatcher as he explores the fort from its origins through the war and up to the present.

About the speaker…

Richard W. Hatcher III is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 with a BA in History. His lifelong love of the subject began during the Civil War Centennial, and grew when he later worked as a seasonal employee at Richmond National Battlefield Park. Rick began working permanently with the National Park Service in 1976 and he retired as Historian from Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park in 2015. Rick is the author or co-author of numerous articles and books including the award-winning Wilson’s Creek, The Second Major Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (2001), and Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove and is a regular on the Civil War speaking circuit.

Southern Portrait Images through the Civil War Era - Saturday, June 15th at 11am and at 2pm
2024-06-15 11:00 - 12:00 | American Civil War Museum – Appomattox, 159 Horseshoe Road, Appomattox, Virginia, 24522
Photography was still a relatively new technology in 1861, but it helped to document the Civil War. What makes an image iconic? What are the best ways to care for photographs from the time? Join us for a showing of some of the best examples of the art from a private collection, and engage in discussion of these durable, yet delicate, objects of the past.

With Russel Hicks, ACWM-Appomattox Advisory Council Member

Tredegar History Tour every Saturday and Sunday at 11am & 3pm + Musket Firing Demonstrations at 1pm!
2024-06-15 11:00
weekday tours (no musket demonstration) daily at 11am

Join us for a guided tour of the Tredegar site at 11am or 3pm & a musket firing demonstration at 1pm every weekend this summer. Find yourself in history on a tour of Historic Tredegar!

'The Impending Crisis' guided tour every Friday in June at 11am!
2024-06-14 11:00 - 12:00
Guided tour of our new exhibit The Impending Crisis every Friday in June at 11am. Explore America on the verge of a civil war.

Tredegar History Tour every Saturday & Sunday this summer at 11am and 3pm. Musket firing demonstrations at 1pm each day!
2024-06-08 11:00 - 17:00

Guided tour of our new exhibit 'The Impending Crisis' every Friday in June at 11am!
2024-06-07 11:00 - 11:45
Don’t miss the opportunity for a guided tour of our latest exhibit!

Tredegar History Tour 11am & 3pm + Musket Firing Demonstrations at 1pm! Every Saturday & Sunday all summer!
2024-06-01 11:00 - 12:00
Find yourself in history on a guided tour of the former Tredegar Iron Works site & musket firing demonstrations by our historic interpretation team all included with museum admission! Plan your visit today!

“The Grand Old Man of the Army: General Winfield Scott’s Unionism and the Secession Crisis” with Dr. Barton A. Myers￼
2024-05-30 18:30 - 19:30 | ACWM – Historic Tredegar, 480 Tredegar St., Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States
General Winfield Scott, the General in Chief of the U.S. Army, is an important but often overlooked figure of the late antebellum period. He played a crucial role in the American government for two decades before the Civil War. This raises questions about how his stance on slavery, abolition, and unionism influenced his decisions between 1860 and 1861. To explore his personal loyalty, we will analyze his relationships with notable figures like James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee, among others, during the sectional crisis. Join us for a discussion with Dr. Barton A. Myers of Washington and Lee University.

Barton A. Myers is Professor of History at Washington and Lee University and the author of the awarding winning Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (LSU Press, 2009), Rebels Against the Confederacy: North Carolina’s Unionists (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014), and co-editor with Brian D. McKnight of The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War (LSU Press, 2017). Dr. Myers is a recipient of prestigious grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Marine Corps Historical Center, the Filson Historical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History. He speaks widely to Civil War groups and roundtables around the United States. Dr. Myers’ work has been featured in the national media, including Time, Los Angeles Times, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Smerconish.com, Sirius XM’s “The Michael Smerconish Program”, CSPAN’s “American History TV”, National Public Radio’s Virginia Insight, and the Civil War Monitor. He was featured in the acclaimed HISTORY Channel documentary series GRANT, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and historian Ron Chernow, as well as the HISTORY Channel miniseries event ABRAHAM LINCOLN, featuring President Barack Obama and produced by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Most recently, he served as an expert in the HISTORY series “DARK MARVELS” on the world history of diabolical military technology.

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Join us for our Spring Lecture Series as we delve into the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, from abolition through Reconstruction, as part of our extensive initiative “The Civil War & Remaking America” and prepare to open our newest exhibition, The Impending Crisis in Spring 2024!

Tredegar site tour 11am & 3pm with musket firing demonstration at 1pm! Plan your Memorial Day visit!
2024-05-27 11:00 - 12:00
Find yourself in history on a guided tour of the former Tredegar Ironworks! Tours are at 11am and 3pm with musket firing demonstrations at 1pm.

Tredegar History Tour
2024-05-26 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-25 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-19 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-18 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-12 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-11 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-05 11:00 - 11:45, 2024-05-04 11:00 - 11:45 and 2 more dates | ACWM – Historic Tredegar, 480 Tredegar St., Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States
Find yourself in the fascinating history of the former Tredegar Iron Works with our “Tredegar History Tour”! Located in the heart of downtown Richmond, our museum is situated on the very site where the iron foundry once stood.

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND (Saturday, Sunday & Monday) at 11:00 AM or 3:00 PM to explore one of Richmond’s famous historical sites and learn about the cannon-making process in a special site tour. We’re also doing musket firing demonstrations at 1pm each day this weekend! (included with Museum admission). You don’t want to miss it!

Book Talk with Jim Downs - "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine"
2024-05-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual
Virtual Book Talk

Join us as historian Jim Downs reveals that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of non-consenting subjects―conscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of the empire.

Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission.

Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History. He is the author, co-author, and editor of multiple books and anthologies, including Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard UP, 2021), which has been translated into Chinese, French, Korean, Japanese, and Russian.

He has published articles and essays in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Slate, Vice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The L.A. Review of Books, among others. Downs has published book chapters in several edited volumes, most recently in Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story (UGA Press, 2020). Downs is the Editor of Civil War History. He was awarded the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American History at Harvard University in 2022-23. Downs earned his P.h.D. in History at Columbia University, his MA in American Studies also at Columbia University, and his BA in American Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. The Organization of American Historians named him a Distinguished Lecturer in 2014-17, which was then renewed in 2017 and again in 2020.

Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjects―conscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease.

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"The Unvanquished" with Patrick O'Donnell
2024-05-09 18:00 - 19:00 | American Civil War Museum – Appomattox, 159 Horseshoe Rd, Appomattox, Virginia, 24522, United States
The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations

The Civil War is famously known for the huge battles that defined it such as Gettysburg, Antietam, and Shiloh. However, bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in his book The Unvanquished that there was a crucial shadow war that took place amid and away from the major battlefields, which was in many ways just as consequential to the conflict’s outcome. At the center of this groundbreaking narrative is the remarkable story of Lincoln’s special forces – the Jessie Scouts – told in its entirety for the first time.

Patrick K. O’Donnell is a bestselling, critically acclaimed military historian and an expert on elite units. The author of thirteen books, including The Indispensables, The Unknowns, and Washington’s Immortals, he is the recipient of numerous national awards. O’Donnell served as a combat historian in a Marine rifle platoon during the Battle of Fallujah and is a professional speaker on America’s conflicts, espionage, special operations, and counterinsurgency. He has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’ award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers and for documentaries produced by the BBC, the History Channel, and Discovery.

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