Index (favorite links)

Connect to these links for other contributors' Civil War Period Reference Pages:

• WCCWC Our California Collectors Group's Pages
• Civil War Collect  The Internet Civil War Collecting brotherhood
• Drum Barracks Museum  Southern California's only original Period CW structure
• Military History Institute Photo Database
• Company of Military Historians

Fakes:  Please visit these pages if you'd like good information on bad ideas

• The Dogpile  A rogues gallery of fakes being pedaled as we speak
• Northern Virginia Relic Hunter's Forum  
• Fakes Database 1
• Fakes Site 2
• Hanover Brass Re-enactor's Confederate and Union Plates being made today. Don't get burned when they're presented as real.
• Historical Reproductions Jeff makes excellent repros.  Know them.
• Medical Fakery See what's being "made up"

Excellent reference sites

• CW Firearms by Serial Number (scroll down to the bottom)
• The Ames Sword Company
• The Civil War Artillery Page
• Daguerreian Registry  
• Medical Antiques 1 
• Civil War Family Photographs 
• Unknown Photographs 
• Making of America  
• Regimental Histories Index
• Civil War Homepage Rosters
• US Army Regulations, 1861
• Civil War Flags
• The Military Horse
• Civil War Navy Index
• Sword Manufacturers Index

Connect to these links for recommended Civil War Period Dealers

• http://www.cwcollect.com/cwcmemlnks.htm
• Jim Stanley 
• Harry Ridgeway 
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Stephen Burgess
• Franklin Relics  
• Olin Shotwell
• Dennis Gregg (books)