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{{Infobox Museum
|name=[[Image:CivilWarMuseumLogo.png|center|200px|Civil War Soldiers Museum logo]]
|logo=
|image=CivilWarMuseumDisplay.jpg
|caption=A medical display at the museum
|type=Privately owned non-profit
|location=108 South [[Palafox Street]]
|operator=Dr. [[Norman Haines]]
|director=Billie Ruth Hair
|curator=
|staff=
|opened=August [[1991]]
|closed=September [[2004]] ([[Hurricane Ivan]])
|visitors=10,000 in 1998<ref>"History a growing part of area tourism." ''Pensacola News Journal'', March 10, 1999.</ref>
|admission=
|hours=
|phone=
|website=[http://www.cwmuseum.org/ cwmuseum.org]
|mapcode=
}}
The '''Civil War Soldiers Museum''' was a privately-owned [[Civil War]] history museum located at 108 South [[Palafox Street]] between [[1991]] and [[2004]].
The museum was owned by Dr. [[Norman W. Haines, Jr.]], a gastroenterologist who collected a number of Civil War artifacts from the battlefield at Antietam during his childhood in western Maryland. As his collection grew, he dreamed of opening a museum, which he did in August [[1991]].
The 4,200-square-foot facility housed an array of artifacts, with a focus on medical technology of the period (reflecting Haines's interest as a doctor), with one display depicting a lifelike amputation. The "Pensacola Room" included information about [[Confederate]] Secretary of the Navy [[Stephen R. Mallory]] and featured the handmade First National Confederate flag captured during the [[Battle of Santa Rosa Island]] on [[October 9]], [[1861]].<ref>"Movie, museum shed light on divided past." ''Pensacola News Journal'', February 17, 2003.</ref> There was also an exhibit about [[slavery]], battlefield maps, weapons, artillery shells, cooking utensils, personal correspondence from soldiers and more.
The museum closed in September [[2004]] after the roof was ripped off by [[Hurricane Ivan]], destroying about a fifth of the collection and damaging another fifth. The surviving artifacts were donated to the [[T. T. Wentworth Museum]], including a 12-pound cannonball found in [[downtown Pensacola]], a battle muster roll, and an original label from the flagstaff cleat at [[Fort McRee]].
==External links & references==
{{refbegin}}
*[http://www.cwmuseum.org/ cwmuseum.org] – Official site (still online [[as of 2008]])
*"Man's dream of a Civil War museum is 'gone with the wind.'" ''Pensacola News Journal'', September 28, 2004.
{{refend}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Museums]] [[Category:Civil War]]
|name=[[Image:CivilWarMuseumLogo.png|center|200px|Civil War Soldiers Museum logo]]
|logo=
|image=CivilWarMuseumDisplay.jpg
|caption=A medical display at the museum
|type=Privately owned non-profit
|location=108 South [[Palafox Street]]
|operator=Dr. [[Norman Haines]]
|director=Billie Ruth Hair
|curator=
|staff=
|opened=August [[1991]]
|closed=September [[2004]] ([[Hurricane Ivan]])
|visitors=10,000 in 1998<ref>"History a growing part of area tourism." ''Pensacola News Journal'', March 10, 1999.</ref>
|admission=
|hours=
|phone=
|website=[http://www.cwmuseum.org/ cwmuseum.org]
|mapcode=
}}
The '''Civil War Soldiers Museum''' was a privately-owned [[Civil War]] history museum located at 108 South [[Palafox Street]] between [[1991]] and [[2004]].
The museum was owned by Dr. [[Norman W. Haines, Jr.]], a gastroenterologist who collected a number of Civil War artifacts from the battlefield at Antietam during his childhood in western Maryland. As his collection grew, he dreamed of opening a museum, which he did in August [[1991]].
The 4,200-square-foot facility housed an array of artifacts, with a focus on medical technology of the period (reflecting Haines's interest as a doctor), with one display depicting a lifelike amputation. The "Pensacola Room" included information about [[Confederate]] Secretary of the Navy [[Stephen R. Mallory]] and featured the handmade First National Confederate flag captured during the [[Battle of Santa Rosa Island]] on [[October 9]], [[1861]].<ref>"Movie, museum shed light on divided past." ''Pensacola News Journal'', February 17, 2003.</ref> There was also an exhibit about [[slavery]], battlefield maps, weapons, artillery shells, cooking utensils, personal correspondence from soldiers and more.
The museum closed in September [[2004]] after the roof was ripped off by [[Hurricane Ivan]], destroying about a fifth of the collection and damaging another fifth. The surviving artifacts were donated to the [[T. T. Wentworth Museum]], including a 12-pound cannonball found in [[downtown Pensacola]], a battle muster roll, and an original label from the flagstaff cleat at [[Fort McRee]].
==External links & references==
{{refbegin}}
*[http://www.cwmuseum.org/ cwmuseum.org] – Official site (still online [[as of 2008]])
*"Man's dream of a Civil War museum is 'gone with the wind.'" ''Pensacola News Journal'', September 28, 2004.
{{refend}}
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Museums]] [[Category:Civil War]]