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Confederate Museum In: The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate museum in , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.In Battle Abbey (the city's Confederate museum in Memorial Institute) are portraits of Confederate museum in officers and a series of murals of the Civil War by the French painter, Charles Hoffbauer. The Valentine Museum houses such items of historical and art interest as Edward Virginius Valentine's plaster model of the marble statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, erected in Lexington, Ky., the death mask of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, and dioramas of episodes in Richmond's history. In the World War I Memorial are Virginia's relics of that later struggle. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,a state institution, contains rare European and American prints and paintings, Russian jewelry, and other art collections.
The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation houses in its buildings (one of which is known as the Poe Shrine) a rare collection of Poe items and relics of the author-editor's residence in the city. John Marshall's old home in Richmond, designed by the nation's fourth chief justice himself and preserved as a memorial to him, contains some of the original furniture. In the Confederate museum in Museum are historical papers, files of the Confederacy, and collections of uniforms, swords, camp chests, and other relics used by such Confederate museum in heroes as Generals Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, and J. E. B. Stuart. |
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