What is so striking about these rare prints are both the large size of most of the images and the detail and depth of field visible in them.  Familiar images from thousands of U.S. history books and Civil War magazines are larger, richer and more alive.  The photographs’ are not of the frozen past, but windows into a living, breathing world and windows into the souls of their famous subjects like Abraham Lincoln or Robert E. Lee.

With the opening of this exhibit, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum reaches a milestone of sort.  This is the first time our museum has offered the visiting public three major exhibits at one time!  Our highly successful exhibit on SC in WWI, Forgotten Stories:  South Carolina Fights the Great War, opened in November of 2007 and has been critically and popularly well-received.  In fact, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum had a record attendance month in February, the highest attendance since opening at our new site in 2002!  The South Carolina Martial Tradition, our permanent exhibit on South Carolina military history from the Revolutionary War through the current War on Terror, is, of course, still open to the public, and our staff is continually rotating or adding artifacts from our collection that enhance our overview of South Carolina history in a national context.