To read more, offline, about area that has become the Confederate Memorial Museum, pick up The Prairie was on Fire: Eyewitness Accounts of the Civil War in the Indian Territory, by Whit Edwards and published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Other publications include information about the only designated Confederate cemetery in Oklahoma in Here We Rest: Historic Cemeteries of Oklahoma by Kent Ruth and Jim Argo (OHS), and “Civil War Sites in Oklahoma”, by Muriel H. Wright and LeRoy H. Fischer in The Chronicles of Oklahoma 44 (Summer 1966).
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Confederate Museum and Mistletoe Leaves
Make a point to seek out the Confederate Memorial Museum item in Oklahoma Historical Society current “Mistletoe Leaves”. The half page article is on page 6 and contains a photo and nice write up of the facility. This officer was able to visit the campus during the 2009 Division Convention bus trip. Don’t fret if you can’t schedule a trip to Atoka, Oklahoma soon, they are online as well!
Backlist: First Posted History Bit
Part of being part of a larger group of like-minded folk is to share information. Please feel free to share historical information with all of us through this elist. Even information that is not centered specifically on the War Between The States! More historical information gets the “juices flowing”, keeps us in the honoring and preservation mood and excites the senses. I’ll holler out things from time to time, please join me :o)
If you haven’t already joined the OK Hist. Soc. – consider doing so. In addition to the quarterly deliverd to your door, you’ll get the monthly Mistletoe Leaves, free admission to OHS museum gallaries, and much more – besides supporting history of the geographical state area.
If you are interested in volunteering at the OHC (OKC), consider going to their volunteer open house Saturday, August 30, 2008 from 1-4PM in the Chesapeake Room.
Originally published August 13, 2008, Oklahoma Division E-List.
Confederate History Bytes 