May 2023 – “Boonsborough Museum of History: Private museum collection may change our understandings of the Civil War”
Historians have good reasons to think they know the U.S. Civil War really well. It was recent in historical terms, and life during the war was well-documented. But what if not all of those documents have been studied? Charles Schwalbe, president of the board of directors for the Boonsborough Museum of History, began to contemplate the ramifications of that near-certainty when the museum commissioned an inventory of the entire collection bequeathed to it by its founder and former owner, Doug Bast, who died in March 2021 at the age of 83.
photo credit: FNP photo by Katina Zentz
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