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This 35 inch tall 51 inch wide flag was created with wool and cotton. It resembles a confederate flag and was thought to be made in Augusta Depot, Augusta, Georgia, CSA. This flag was carried until the unit had surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi in May […]

Charleston Slave Badge from 1850 for mechanic No.23 https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2008.4?destination=edan-search/collection_search%3Fpage%3D4%26edan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_local%3D1%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dtopic%253A%2522Slavery%2522 Object label: Slave Badges were mandated in 1751, and badge laws soon swept across different cities, especially Charleston, where they were manufactured and sold. These small badges were made of copper, and slaves working in cities […]

      Museum Label: This document is a payment receipt regarding the information of a purchase of an enslaved African American. This transaction was made on January 28th, 1813 in Essex County, Virginia. Rosa Gray was the initial slaveholder, she sold Cook the enslaved […]

Label:  The Slave tag was a method of organizing and identifying slaves who were then rented by other entities outside of their owner.  The tag is made of copper and stamped with a slave identification number.  The tag comes from Charleston, South Carolina which was […]

I chose the object titled “Badge”: https://moconfederacy.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/22F23172-C2B9-422D-A347-202847248498 This medal owned by Lt. Col. William H. Stewart commemorates the 20th annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans on April 26-28, 1910. The medal depicts a torch surrounded by two portraits (the left believed to be Robert […]

Museum Label Havelock(s) are a modern hallmark of the American Civil War period. The cloth/cotton cap was designed to fit right over a soldier’s cap, and had a flap-like tail that came down and covered the soldier’s neck. The instrumentation of the Havelock was to […]

Dress made by an unidentified enslaved woman or women: This artifact is a cotton dress hand-stitched by either one or multiple enslaved women sometime around the mid-1800s, near the time of  American Civil War, in Staunton, Virginia. It is unclear who created the dress, but […]

I chose the Artifact known as the Housewife https://moconfederacy.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/AB8ED683-F518-4DB1-91A9-866554301880 The Housewife was layered with a waterproof canvas containing three inner silk pockets that depicted what almost looked like the First National, Bonnie Blue, and Second National Confederate flags respectively. One of the pockets consisted of […]

The object I chose for this week’s blog post is a box from the American Civil War Museum. https://moconfederacy.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/93521132-7856-4BE3-B309-355621113259 “This rectangular box was utilized as a Decoy Jewel Case and was utilized by Lieutenant William M. Witten. Witten was a prisoner of war at Fort […]

Object citation from website   Object label: This violin was handed down from slaveholder Elijah Burke to an enslaved man, Jesse Burke. Elijah owned a plantation in Arkansas, Mount Pleasant Plantation and in 1860 before he died, he gave the violin to an enslaved man […]