The Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) maintains the world’s most comprehensive collections of artifacts, manuscripts and photographs from the Confederate States of America. While the MOC is best known for its military collections, it also holds significant collections of domestic objects and decorative arts, personal papers and diaries, postwar memorial period materials and museum archives. The object collections total approximately 15,000 items. Among these are:
* 1,500 decorative arts objects featuring rococo revival-style furniture from the Confederate White House;
* 1,000 memorial period artifacts including badges and ribbons from postwar veterans reunions and souvenirs of monument dedications throughout the South;
* 550 flags, including non-regulation oil-painted silk flags and government issue national colors;
* 300 edged weapons and 177 firearms representing Southern wartime manufacture and European imports;
* 215 uniforms including prewar militia uniforms, plantation-made garments, late-war issues from the CSA’s Richmond depot and the uniforms of well-known officers;
* 3,000 military accoutrements and 1,000 military buttons;
* 150 paintings featuring a series of 31 oil-on-board paintings of Charleston Harbor by Conrad Wise Chapman, E.B.D. Julio’s heroic painting, “The Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson,” and wartime paintings by William D. Washington;
* 25 sculptures including busts of Jefferson Davis and “Stonewall” Jackson by Frederick Volck and work by Moses Ezekiel; and
* 5,000 domestic items featuring wartime “ersatz” goods such as plantation wooden shoes and homemade soap, slave-woven coverlets and baskets, and articles associated with the employment of women in government bureau
The photographic collections total approximately 6,000 original images. Among these are 315 cased images and 2,500 cartes de visite - individual portraits illustrating the early history of photographic technology. The photographic c