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This week’s new video on the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features Rachel Cockrell, Registrar, discussing a silk scarf that belonged to Pvt. Thomas Tillman, who was killed in 1847 during the Mexican War.  Tillman was part of the SC Volunteers, Shield’s Brigade.  Records on the scarf indicate that it was blood-stained but this cannot be confirmed without forensic analysis.
 
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.