Added: 01/16/2006 |
The Museum War - a source of Civil War knowledgeThe entire story of the crucial moment in the development of the United States of America - American Civil War is vividly depicted in the American Museum War. To give a chance to all the American citizens and visitors to get to know the Civil War, the museum organizes a series of unique exhibitions, which are a logical continuation of each other, though it is absolutely possible to visit them separately. Anyway, the Museum War will give you the fullest and the most profound knowledge about the American Civil War.
To give a chance to all the American citizens and visitors to get to know the Civil War, the museum organizes a series of unique exhibitions, which attracts thousands of visitors. Here is a short overview of some of them.
It is well how Americans treat their national and federal flags, images of American flag can be seen everywhere round the USA: starting with the White House and finishing with handkerchiefs. The Museum War cannot leg behind this tendency, so a special exhibition These Tattered Flags is organized, serving as unique symbols of American history, Union and Confederate flags are the focus of this new temporary exhibit.
The National Civil War Museum incorporates collections of artifacts, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and other printed matter that exceeds 24,000 items. Although many items have been donated to The National Museum War since its opening, the vast majority of its collections were acquired within the years of the museum?s existence.
The peculiar Institution, American Slavery exhibition, makes you look at the problem of American slavery with the eyes of Americans of the 19th century.
The recruitment, training and equipping of what would become one of the largest armies in America is the theme of Making of Armies exhibition and its logical continuation Weapons and Equipment display, which opens for your appreciation a collection of firearms, swords, accoutrements, ammunition, and uniforms of the infantry, cavalry, artillery and navy of the Union and Confederate forces.
Those interested in the war procedures and actions should visit Museum War and its Campaigns and Battles exhibition, and have a thorough look at the overview of tactics, strategies and logistics as practiced by the many West Point trained officers who led the troops in the Civil War at the Battles of New Orleans, Shiloh, the Peninsula, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
Life-size mannequins, used in a real life scene, showing a surgeon preparing to amputate a soldier's leg can be observed in the Museum War. Displays of the Cost of War exhibition focuse on war medicine and include medical equipment used in the field and in hospitals, a complete ambulance, crutches and artificial limbs. It also shows the inhumane conditions of war camps prisoners, both North and South.
Never forgetting about feminist movement during the war and peaceful periods, the Museum War organized an extremely popular exhibition Women in the War. The unique collection focuses on the roles of women during the Civil War, ranging from factory workers to nurses, and from farmhands to the occasional spy and soldier.
A particular interest presents the exhibition of Campaigns and Battles of 1864-65, covering the Overland Campaign, the March to the Sea, the Siege of Petersburg, the North Carolina Campaign and Appomattox and the Battle Map display, which shows the widespread battles from Stones River to Appomattox and the most important events of the Civil War.
The post war constitutional amendments, reconstruction, westward expansion and technological advancement of the United States is shown in details in the War and Remembrance exhibition.
All the above described exhibitions are a logical continuation of each other, though it is absolutely possible to visit them separately. Anyway, the Museum War will give you the fullest and the most profound knowledge about the American Civil War. All you have to do is just visit the museum. So don't lose time and pay a visit to the Museum War - a source of Civil War knowledge.
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