To me there is always something peculiarly engaging about intimate relics of historic figures, and it is of such relics that the greater part of the collection of the Confederate Museum consists.

In one show case, for example, are the saddle and bridle of General Lee, and the uniform he wore when he surrendered.

The effects of General Joseph E.Johnston are shown in another case, and in still another those of the picturesque J.E.B.Stuart, who, as here one may see, loved the little touch of individuality and dash which came of wearing a feather in a campaign hat.

So also one learns something of Stonewall Jackson when one sees in the cabinet, along with his old blue hat and other possessions, the gold spurs which were given to him by the ladies of Baltimore, beside the steel spurs that he _wore_.

All Jackson's personal effects were very simple.
One of the most striking relics in the museum is the Great Seal of the Confederacy, which was only returned to Richmond within the last few years, after having been lost track of for nearly half a century--a strange chapter in the annals of the Civil War.
Records in the Library of Congress, including the Confederate state papers purchased by the United States Government in 1872, of William J.
Bromwell, formerly a clerk in the Confederate State Department, brought to light, a few years ago, the fact that the seal was in the possession of Rear Admiral Thomas O.Selfridge, U.S.N., retired.
At the time of the evacuation of Richmond, Bromwell carried off a number of the Confederate state papers, and Mrs.Bromwell took charge of the seal, transporting it through the lines in her bustle.