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This week’s new video on the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features Joe Long, Curator of Education, discussing an unusual Civil War weapon, the pike.  In 1862, Governor Joe Brown of Georgia ordered that 10,000 of these medieval-style weapons be manufactured to arm soldiers.     
 
The museum’s site video can be accessed by visiting www.crr.sc.gov/videos or http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos are added regularly.
 
Founded in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military history from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.