Curator of Education Joe Long discusses Relic Room flags and stories in this edition of History at Home - telling stories of the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum during quarantine!
Curator of Education Joe Long discusses How to Be a Villain in this edition of History at Home - telling stories of the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum during quarantine!
Most of us picture a Confederate soldier rolling his possessions and gear up into a blanket when on the march, while Yankee soldiers had backpacks. But some who served in gray and butternut had state-of-the-art packs of their own, made by the British supplier S. Isaac, Campbell & Co. In this video, Curator of Education Joe Long shows how the backpack worked.
South Carolinian James C. Dozier was a lifelong soldier who reached the rank of lieutenant general and was known as "Mr. National Guard." But he is most honored for what he did as a young lieutenant in 1918, when he took out a German machine-gun nest with a .45 caliber pistol and some hand grenades. The pistol he used is on display at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia. In this video, Fritz Hamer, the museum's curator of history and archivist, tells the story of how Dozier earned the Medal of Honor.
A century ago, the U.S. Army’s 30th Division served on the Western Front fighting under the direction of the British Army. The 30th was formed in 1917, made up primarily of South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee National Guard troops. They trained at Camp Sevier in Greenville, S.C., before being sent overseas to fight in World War I. “A Century Past: The 30th Division on the Western Front, 1918” was an exhibit at the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum that tells the story of the division's experiences during the First World War.
Quick, what's the oldest military artifact on display at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum? No, it's not from the 1860s. Remember, the museum covers ALL of our state's military history, going back to the Revolution. But that doesn't get there you there, either, because the oldest artifact is even older than that: It's a Japanese sword, a katana, that was made in about the year 1600, long before there was such a place as South Carolina!
