PBA Galleries

Collection of Civil War artifacts put together by the late Calvin Otto, much of what was used in a Civil War exhibit which he partly curated. Consists of Framed print of the Custer battle with 12 mounted Indian beads and two arrowheads; small soldiers sewing kit of a brass thimble and thread holder contained in a brass tube with cover; straight edge razor; collapsible tin drinking cup; miscellaneous tin cooking pieces; bag of bone buttons, railroad key excavated at Fredericksburg; brass lock and key; 4 wooden toy tops in the shape of musket bullets; miscellaneous rusty dug artifacts; photo of Johnny Clem drummer boy at age 10, was last Civil War soldier mustered out of army as Major General in 1915, in round silver frame, may be later photo; nice hand held lantern with magnifying lens, 7” high; 2 “Joe Demos” hat cleaner Richmond, Cold Harbor tokens; display box with 13 broken Indian Pueblo artifacts, pot shards etc, found in Apache Co. AZ; display box of Civil War period railroad seals excavated at Winchester, VA; display box with approximately 50 relics dug at Ft. Craig, NM, which fort stopped the Confederates invasion of the Southwest. Bullets, shells uniform accouterments etc; box of display box of 4 religious items carried by soldiers; display box of bullet in wood, excavated from  the South Mountain battlefield in Maryland; infantry button from Ft. Wingate, NM 8 tintypes including 2 nice thermoplastic cases, one of which is oval, (non military images); display box of buttons & pins recovered from sunken Confederate blockade runner; display box of artifacts from 1862, Ft. Craig, NM including bullet dented US ammunition box plate; metal match box with matches; bag of  brass military uniform buttons; display box more than a hundred Indian trade beads from Austria, used by the Plains Indians. Labeled as “one of the few things to survive the 1839 Harney Massacre at Ft. Denard, FL”; display box of 6 arrowheads and Indian beads, plus some other odds and ends.