Gettysburg National Military Park has an extensive collection of Civil War artifacts. Thanks to the Museum and Visitor Center, project, those artifacts will be preserved for future generations. Over the years, the Foundation has helped with National Park Service preserve and, in some cases, acquire, key artifacts:
- Bachelder papers and tintype
- Rare books replacement for Gettysburg National Military Park library
- Gettysburg broadside—reinterment of battlefield dead
- Confederate bayonet and tintype
- Louisiana belt plate die
- Collection of Captain Clark, U.S. Signal Corps
- Officer’s Commission of Lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson
- Union officer’s coat
- Eisenhower-style tunic and jacket
- Camp Letterman surgeon’s box
- German-language enlistment poster
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1st edition
- John Brown execution broadside
- Collection of Lieutenant William Fisher, 10th U.S. Infantry
- Numerous broadsides, Union and Confederate
- Archival shelving, textile treatments, preservation supplies (provided matching funds for this “Save America’s Treasures” grant)
- William Waud sketch books
- Union General CDVs (carte-de-vistes)
- Confederate cavalry jacket (loan facilitation)
