Donations to the Collection

Anonymous Donors

Cartes de Visite portraits of General P.G.T. Beauregard, General Joseph E. Johnston, and Colonel John S. Mosby.

Tokens or challenge coins for 1970s Ku Klux Klan membership.

Artifacts relating to public protests at the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 2020.

Pocket diary of Eben Andrews, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, 1864.

The Family of Mary Ladd Garstang

German papier mâché doll, three cloth dolls, a bound herbarium book assembled by Anne S. Jones, 16 pieces of paper money, and several period textiles and textile samples

Amy L. Hirter in memory of Ruth Hirter

Large (240-piece) collection of letters and diaries of the Paden family of Pennsylvania and Ohio, 1856-1872 (bulk 1861-1865), including letters from and about brothers James Paden of the 3 rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, Thomas Franklin “Frank” Paden of the 3 rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and William Paden of the 10th Pennsylvania Infantry who was mortally wounded in May 1864, and their sister, Melissa J “Millie” Paden, who died while working in the Washington, D.C., hospital where her brother had died.

The Verdery Family

Porcelain doll with calico dress and leather shoes.

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In memory of Madeline Traina Hewitt and James Thomas Hewitt

Funds to purchase “Wounded Scout” sculpture by John Rogers, 1864.

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Anonymous Donor

Cased image portrait of an unidentified Union soldier.

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Sharon Plaskett Jackley

Letter and hand-drawn calling card from George Rush Plasket to “Ely,” 1863, with a hand-drafted map of Vicksburg on the reverse of the letter.

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Louise V. Holzhauer

Eight pieces of Confederate and State bank paper money.

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Bizhan Khodabandeh, artist

Print of digital art, “Lee Monument, June 2020.”

John H. Motley

Two donations of books, pamphlets, papers, photographs, military records, newspapers, and speeches, numbering 41 and 56 pieces, related to African-American military experiences and including two slave sale receipts and a slave hire contract.

S. Waite Rawls III

Three prints (two hand-colored) and a framed Confederate cotton bond: “7% cotton loan of the Confederate States of America for 3 millions sterling or 75 millions francs.”

Joan Sprague

Three letters from Private Isaac M. Morris, 3rd West Virginia Cavalry, to his wife, 1863-1864, written from New Creek, West Virginia, and Belle Isle prison camp, Richmond, Virginia, where he died.