Civil War drum of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, carried by E.B.A. Miller, drummer boy of Company A. Miller enlisted on August 27, 1862, and served until June 3, 1865, playing the drum in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg.

Double breasted frock coat belonging to Lt. Col. Edmund Rice, commander of the 19th Massachusetts Infantry. Wounded at Antietam and twice again at Gettysburg, where he won the Medal of Honor, Rice was captured by Pickett’s men and managed to escape and return through Confederate northern Virginia back to Union lines.

The Pamplin Collection of the Civil War is the largest in private hands and is exhibited primarily at Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersboro, Virginia (www.pamplinpark.org/).  Confederacy President Jefferson Davis autograph with Confederate flags, created to help raise funds for the Confederate cause during the Civil War.

Bullet struck Diary, pocketwatch and belt plate carried by Sergeant Francis M. McMillen CO. C 110th. REGT OHIO VOL. INF. Petersburg Virginia, March 25, 1865. Diary transcript “We were ordered out to ASSAULT and drive the REBEL, PICKET LINE, but the first assault, in which I was, failed for want of numbers. The book was in my breast pocket and received the ball. Which was intended to take my life, but thanks to the Book, watch and belt plate I AM STILL ALIVE.”, June 23, 1911.

Photograph of Cadet George Armstrong Custer at West Point on the eve of the Civil War.  The Pamplin Collection holds letters, photographs, and other artifacts and documents relating to Custer.

The above concurred on the 33 anniversary of my birt. I am now an inmate of the Central Branch National Military Home.

Dating from the early 1860s, it is cobalt blue glass with the following dimensions: 21/2″ in height with a 11/4″ diameter base, a 7/8″ neck, a 3/16″ rolled lip, a 3/4″ diameter opening at the top, and a 43/4″ circumference. The bottle is molded and seamed on either side with the seams stopping below mouth of the body. The bottle is embossed on its base “W.T.Co./5”

The embossment means that the bottle was manufactured by the Whitall Tatum Company of Millville, New Jersey. For additional information about the company, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/

For further information on the history of malaria and the Civil War, we suggest the following article from Scientific American titled “The Civil War and Malaria”: https://www.scientificamerican.com

An additional excellent source of information is an article from Distillations, published by the Science History Institute, titled “’The Popular Dose with Doctors’: Quinine and the American Civil War”.
https://www.sciencehistory.org