Question of the Week: What Civil War object do you collect?
Collectors Roll Call! What Civil War-era stuff do you collect? Muskets? Coins? Buttons? Something else?
Collectors Roll Call! What Civil War-era stuff do you collect? Muskets? Coins? Buttons? Something else?
ACW Longarms. With an emphasis on the arms altered by Miles Greenwood for the states of Ohio,Indiana and John Fremont in 1861.
Letters and documents, specifically from the Culpeper area.
I collected in my youth two complete sets of Topps Civil War Trading Cards. As an adult I collect books, books and more books on the Civil War. Close to 1700 in my home library along with CW prints and miniatures of soldiers.
Maps.
Actually, reproductions of the official military maps ordered by congress after the wars end.
I do have some artifacts like bullets and buttons. Nothing unique, but definitely from battlefields nearby like Cold Harbor.
Minature civil war soldiers and accessories. I have dioramas of Fort Stevens and Grant’s Headquarters in my office. I announce to those observing my reproduction of the Forst Stevens engagement, “That is the closest the Confederate flag came to the Nation’s Capitol before January 6, 2021.
I have a Springfield 1863 rifle with ramrod and bayonet and a 1864 NCO sword. I also have minie balls and an assortment of camp finds.