Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-09-22
CONFEDERATE MUSEUM
Collection of Interesting War Relics les
in R. E. Lee Camp Hall or.
Upper Prince Street

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Very little perhaps is known OF an
object that should be: dear and OF great
interest to ais southerners and espec-
ially to those of our own city, that OF
the Museum located intthe Confed-
crate Veterans spacious building On
: Prince street.
The building is the home of r. E.
Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, and
was formerly the residence OF the
late Rev. James T. Johnston, OF st.
Paurs Episcopal Church, 1t is also
the headquarters and assembly place
{ Of all Confederate associations IN Al
exandria, the Woman's Auxiliary, the
Mary Gusts Lee and Seventeenth Vlr
GINA Regiment Chapters of Daugh-
tiers Of the Confederacy, the Junior
Daughters of the Confederacy and the
MD. Corse Camp, Sons Of Confeder-
ate Veterans.
On the first floor is the Camp Hall
consisting of the two .parlors OF the
great old-fashioned house thrown IN
to one large room, and from the walls
of which. above the marble mantels.
mounted on Traveller" and looking
down upon the visitors, is large
nicture of one who Wes by every SOL
der of the South, private and officer,
idolized, as the military leader of the
Confederacy. About the walls are also
hung the portraits of President jet
ferson Davis, General "StonewalP'
Jackson. Jno. B. Gordon, M. D. Corse,
Fitzhugh Lee, G. W. c. Lee and
MANY other distinguished men of the
Confederacy, and the beautiful anc
much valued oil painting, "a Nlgh'
on the Battlefield; or, Woman's De-
votion," a gift to the Camp from Com
rade B. C. White, of Washington City,
In the hall on the right near the en-
trance to the main room IS bronze
tablet to the memory OF Miss Juiia
de Lagnel, placed by the Woman's
Auxiliary, and on the left marble
bust-relief of General Robert +. Lee
In the Museum, which is located on
the second floor in room extending
!. the entire length of the building are
MANY interesting relics, priceless
treasures of the loved and lost cause
which tend SO much to perpetuate Its
sacred memories of the past.
The object and purposes for which
this museum is established IS to col
lect within it's walls, such books, docu-
ments, flags, maps, plans, papers,
paintings, engravings and other relics
relating to the war between the States
from 1861 to 1865. where the youth CT
our city and all searchers after the
truth can come for enlightenment as
to the motives and deeds of the Con-
federacy, and it is earnestly urged
upon any one having such relics to
place them in the keeping OF the camp
where thew may be listed and preserV-
ed
The work so far in the establish
ment of the Museum is highly encour-
aging, The list of contributors to
date numbers siNty-eight.
Handsome cases extending the
a,t;ra length of the west wall of the
museum and nearly reaching the cen.
ing. in which the relics are place.
when received, were the gift OF the
Woman's AuXilia:-
Among the most priced re'icS oi
the camp are the battleflags OF the
Seventeenth Virginia Infantry. one
IF which was torn from its stan at
Tho hattie of Give Forks by color
bearer Ira beavers. of the Old Dom
inion Rifles, and saved from capture
This flag was carried by the regiment
in the battles at Fredericksburg, Dec
~ 1862. White Marsh, April 10, 1858.
Manassas Gap. July q. 1868; Zoli'-
Golfer Tenn, September ~, 1905;
Flat Creek, Va, May Is, 1864; Drew
rvs Bluff, May 16, 1864; Cold Har-
bor June 8, 1864; re-capture of How
let's Line, June 1G, 1864; Dlnwiddle.
c.. H.. March 81, 1863; and FIVE
Forks, April 1st, 1865.
Il lie
Another which bears upon It's ioios
the names of williamsburg and Sew
en- Pines: and Virginia State nag
which was presented to the Seven
teenth Virginia regiment by the State
of Virginia, also the remains of the
flag which was presented to the Al
exandria Riflemen by the ladies Of
our city in 1851 This flag was donat-
ed to the camp by Mrs. Thomas Per-
rv, and a beautiful silk flag bearing
The nortrait of Gen. R. E. Lee and the
Coat of Arms of Virginia. presented
to the camp by the ladies OF Alexan-