Summer 2007 issue of the Museum of the Confederacy Magazine

[gary]

This issue is especially good. Senior Curator Robert Hancock has an article on French Influence and soldiers' preference on headware. It is lavisly illustrated with 18 color pictures and has some hats that we're very familiar with like Robert E. Lee's simple & unadorned grey felt hat, one of Jeb Stuart's Paris made plumed hat, various kepis and some home made hats.

Library Manager Teresa Roane has an article describing the musuem's acquisition of 24 wartime documents related to the 1st Battalion Florida Special Cavalry. They were Seminoles who served as cowherders who secured Florida beef for the Confederacy (kept the deserters from stealing). They also fought in three battles or skirmishes.

Historian John Coski has an article on Mrs. Norman Randolph, a woman who grew up in Mosby's Confederacy and was an early employee of the Museum. She cajoled and plead to for relics and is largely responsible for some getting objects that we enjoy today. Coski also wrote an article on the 4th Virginia Cavalry & the Museum's documents on that unit. Photos of artifacts or persons of interest (to borrow a police phrase) depict both of Coski's articles.

Of course, there's news on the Museum, but it doesn't say where it's going to move to. You can get more up to date info on the net. The good news is that the Richmond Daily Dispatch appealed to folks to gwine, and gwine they did at the tune of 1,200. That's the most in any single year.

Check it out!

[gary]

BTW, I finally got access to the Members Only portion of their website (had to email them for that info). Anyhow, they've got transcribed talks with leading scholars including Craig Symonds, Ervin Jordan, Arthur Bergeron, Bruce Levine, Robertson, etc. You can download them or read them online. It's almost as good as attending the talks they host in Richmond.

[Jamieva]

Gary I posted this in another section, but the MOC announced they are moving. They are going to split into 3 locations:

Appomattox
Chancellorsville
Manassas or Petersburg

Total space will be double the current MOC so a lot of the stuff in storage is going to come out on display. Still 2-3 years off.