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

The MOC’s Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library houses more than 625 cu. ft. of manuscripts, 1500 prints, 400 maps, 400 Confederate imprints, and 10,000 books and bound periodicals. An impressive collection in its own right, the Library holds such items as the Provisional Confederate Constitution, a draft of Lee’s resignation letter from the U.S. Army, a blood-stained letter written by a mortally wounded soldier to his father, the Southern Women’s History Collection, rare 1860s school books, and one of the world’s largest collections of Jefferson Davis papers. The Confederate currency and bond collection is recognized as second to only the Smithsonian collection.

The Museum and White House of the Confederacy offers a variety of field trip options for elementary, middle and high school students. All programs are designed to supplement Virginia Standards of Learning (VA.1, VS.7, VS.8, USI.1, USI.9, VUS.1, VUS.7) and can be tailored to meet the specific learning needs of your class. A visit to the Museum and White House of the Confederacy takes between 45 minutes and 2 hours.

The Museum of the Confederacy's current publications continue a tradition begun more than 109 years ago with a hard cover souvenir of the Museum's 1896 opening. Catalogues of the growing collection, yearbooks, and pamphlets followed in subsequent decades. In the last 25 years, the Museum has published a series of lavishly illustrated catalogues of special exhibits and specific areas of its collections, along with an occasional Journal offering rich and detailed articles about the collections. A regular Newsletter began appearing in 1963; it matured from mimeographed pages stapled together into a 16-page magazine format. In 2005, the Newsletter became The Museum of the Confederacy Magazine, a 32-page color quarterly publication combining articles about the collection with Museum events and news. Current issues of the Magazine are available exclusively to members of the Museum. Members also have the opportunity to browse through past editions of the Magazine in the Member's Only section of the website. Please consider becoming a member of the Museum to not only gain access to this valuable resource but to also help preserve the rich collection of the MOC for future generations.