Artifacts used to depict Jefferson Davis' imprisonment at Fort Monroe will no longer be displayed at the Casemate Museum because the items were returned to the Davis family.
The items, including a pipe used by the president of the Confederate States, were removed from display Wednesday. The family will ultimately decide what happens to the items, Casemate Museum director Robin Reed said.
"Some artifacts are leaving because they belong to the Army," Fort Monroe Authority Executive Director Glenn Oder said. "Some of them are simply not ours."
More @ S&S
Can't help feeling that they'll end up auctioned off and eventually lost, which would be a great loss.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
Delete"Some of them are simply not ours"
ReplyDeleteWell, no kidding. What does that make you? What does that make your predecessors?
Thieves!
But then, we knew that all along. What's one more theft for an army of criminals?
We need to get families whose ancestors donated to the MOC to demand their items back, but in this particular instance, the family had loaned these items, but I'm sure there is much that was stolen. Lord only knows how much china, silverware, etcetera was stolen and taken north.
DeleteThey need to return Arlington to the Lee family.
ReplyDeleteLee's son Curtis took it to the SC and won, but then sold it back to the government. Not me, I would have said dig up all the bodies and remove them.
DeleteCould it be possible that the Davis family will actually put these artifacts in the museum of his home "Beauvoir" in the state of Mississippi? Would make sense to me since is a musuem about his life
ReplyDeleteHopefully and I'm sure the SCV has contacted them since they run and own Beauvoir.
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