Online Museum of the Confederacy exhibit features rare Civil War art

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Starting today, a collection of rarely displayed paintings of a Civil War-era Charleston painted by a Confederate soldier is available through an online Museum of the Confederacy exhibit.

The exhibition's launch culminates a $25,000, ten-year-long effort to conserve and then display the paintings. All 31 paintings by Conrad Wise Chapman will be displayed, including a stunning rendering of the submarine H.L. Hunley that was completed in December 1863. The paintings are a mere 10 by 12 inches, but are impressive despite their small stature.

Get more info about the online exhibition over at The Post and Courier's report here, and be sure to check it out for yourself over here.



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