Sightseeing
White House of the Confederacy
Check pricesRichmond house that served as the Confederate executive residence of Jefferson Davis, now one of three sites run by the American Civil War Museum.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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American Civil War Museum
Two floors of Civil War exhibits and artifacts on the grounds of the old Tredegar Iron Works beside the James River.
480 Tredegar St · Richmond, VA
About American Civil War Museum
The American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar follows the war from its beginning through Reconstruction and beyond across two floors of exhibits. Its collection of Civil War military and civilian artifacts totals over 15,000 objects from the battlefields and the homefront. The museum sits by the James River on the site of the Tredegar Iron Works, which supplied about half the artillery used by the Confederate army and the iron plating for the ironclad CSS Virginia.
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