760 Jim Wright Freeway
White Settlement, TX 76108
USA
New Permanent Exhibits
Robert E. Lee’s wartime pocketknife: This knife was given by Robert E. Lee after the war to help raise funds at an auction for an orphanage in Maryland. A letter written by Lee about the knife will accompany the exhibit along with a lock of Lee’s hair.
General Grant’s cigar: His Adjutant, George Clark, kept this partially smoked cigar as a memento from the 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, VA.
These items will join the current museum exhibits which include Robert E. Lee’s spur, General Grant’s coat worn at the surrender, Grant’s presentation sword, Jefferson Davis’ eyeglasses, medicine chest and lock of hair, along with an excavated revolver and buckle from Palmito Ranch and a diorama depicting the battle.
In remembrance of the sacrifice of our nation’s brightest and best in the mid- 19th century and to a generation lost, the Texas Civil War Museum is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the war with several special events and exhibits.
