"Buchanan, who lives in Columbia Cross Roads, started collecting Civil War items in the early 1970s.
The first piece he acquired was a Union soldier's belt plate, for which he paid a collector $11.
The collection grew over the years: photographs, guns, swords, cartridge boxes, uniforms, along with letters and documents. Three of his photos were used in the Ken Burns documentary, 'The Civil War.'
A favorite item is a document written by Charles H. Crane, the U.S. surgeon general at the time, to all the prison camps in the North.
Labeled 'Instructions Concerning Prisoners of War Sick in Hospital,' it spelled out the rations they were to receive."
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The first piece he acquired was a Union soldier's belt plate, for which he paid a collector $11.
The collection grew over the years: photographs, guns, swords, cartridge boxes, uniforms, along with letters and documents. Three of his photos were used in the Ken Burns documentary, 'The Civil War.'
A favorite item is a document written by Charles H. Crane, the U.S. surgeon general at the time, to all the prison camps in the North.
Labeled 'Instructions Concerning Prisoners of War Sick in Hospital,' it spelled out the rations they were to receive."
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