Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Colonel Julius Raith's Meerschaum Pipe: Visitors Center Museum, Shiloh National Military Park


Colonel Raith brought this Meerschaum pipe from Germany.  It was picked up by a Confederate cavalryman on the battlefield and returned to Raith’s grandson.

Colonel Raith was mortally wounded leading a charge of his Illinois troops near Shiloh Church on April 6.

SOURCE: Display at the Visitors Center Museum, Shiloh National Military Park.

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