Confederate Memorial Hall / WWII Museum Block

The oldest continuously operating Civil War museum in the United States — founded in 1891 by Frank T. Howard and housed in a Romanesque Revival hall on Camp Street that was specifically designed to hold the collection. The museum holds over 5,000 artifacts including uniforms, flags, weapons, personal letters, and the last Confederate flag to fly over a major city. The building is now physically adjacent to the WWII Museum campus, creating an unintentional but powerful juxtaposition of two very different American wars. The collection is genuinely significant regardless of how you feel about its subject. Admission charged.