The Idea becomes a Reality
It took the ladies three years set up a Museum after the Wilmington Light Infantry offered them a room.
In December 1897, when the WLI again offered the UDC a room in the armory and a glass case, the chapter decided the time was right to try to make the museum a reality.
The women appropriated $25 for the Museum at the January 1898 meeting. And they announced to the world -- well the people who read the local paper -- they had reached an agreement with the Wilmington Light Infantry and secured room in the WLI’s building for a museum of “confederate relics.”
It took the ladies three years set up a Museum after the Wilmington Light Infantry offered them a room.
In December 1897, when the WLI again offered the UDC a room in the armory and a glass case, the chapter decided the time was right to try to make the museum a reality.
The women appropriated $25 for the Museum at the January 1898 meeting. And they announced to the world -- well the people who read the local paper -- they had reached an agreement with the Wilmington Light Infantry and secured room in the WLI’s building for a museum of “confederate relics.”
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| Colonel John D. Taylor’s Uniform about 1864 |
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