| Collection
Summary | The collection objects represent the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi West Theater and contain items documenting battlefield medicine; uniforms; an extensive weapons collection; cavalry objects; soldiers’ personal items including cards, dice, dominoes, and tobacco pipes; and Civil War flags such as the Confederate First National flag recovered from the battlefield at Wilson’s Creek, and the Confederate Cherokee Mounted Rifles Regimental flag “Cherokee Braves." The park’s extensive archival collections include personal diaries, soldiers’ drawings, over 1500 images of soldiers, civilian and military correspondence, and military orders. |
