Established in June of 2000, Ronn Palm's Museum of Civil War Images opened its doors to the public in the small, historic Pennsylvania town known as Gettysburg. Ronn took on the intricate task of acquiring a building large enough to display his large collection of photographic images and other historic military memorabilia. Aside from what's inside the museum, the building itself is of some important significance; dating back to 1801 as a two story log home, which is now covered in brick. It is the one of older known structures in the historic district of Gettysburg.

The museum's purpose is to honor the Civil War Soldier by exhibiting original photography of the soldier, through an excess of over 5000 original images and artifacts on display. The Museum's collection focuses mainly on soldiers from the State of Pennsylvania, in which each photograph is accordingly and displayed by regimental designation. The museum is seeking any original pictures of the Bucktail soldiers & artifacts to be included in this Special exhibit as well as many other Pennsylvania images, other states are represented

Ronn Palm hails from the Western portion of the Commonwealth; he prides himself on knowing that men from that area of the state are well represented in his museum, featuring soldiers from the following regiments:

Infantry

• 9th PA Reserves, 11th PA Reserves, 13th PA Reserves,

• 11th PA Volunteers,

• 61st PA Volunteers, 62nd PA Volunteers, 63rd PA Volunteers,

• 78th PA Volunteers,

• 83rd PA Volunteers, 85th PA Volunteers,

• 102nd PA Volunteers, 103rd PA Volunteers, 105th PA Volunteers,

• 111th PA Volunteers,

• 139th PA Volunteers, 140th PA Volunteers, 149th PA Volunteers,

• 150th PA Volunteers, 155th PA Volunteers

Cavalry

• 1st PA Cavalry, 2nd PA Cavalry, 3rd PA Cavalry, 4th PA Cavalry,

• 14th PA Cavalry, 16th PA Cavalry, 18th PA Cavalry,

• 22nd "Ringgold Battalion” 22nd. Pa. Cavalry

• a New book “Marshalling the Ringgold Battalion” is available at the Museum or can be ordered contact the museum.

  RonnPalm@gmail.com or phone

• 724-664-5150

Artillery

• Knapp's Battery, Nevin's Battery, Hampton's Battery,

• Independent Batteries,

• 5th PA Heavy Artillery, 6th PA Heavy Artillery

The collection also houses additional photographs of Pennsylvania soldiers serving in other units which came from different areas of the state, including the:

• 1st thru 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiments,

• Pennsylvania Zouave Regiments, such as Birney's 23rd PA, Baxter's 72nd PA,

• Keystone Zouaves of the 76th PA, Gosline's Zouaves of the 95th PA and Collis' Zouaves of the 114th PA.

There are other states represented and many other unidentified images throughout the Museum

Additionally:

• Copies of images in the collection can be obtained for a charge with agreement.

Also available for sale :

• Period Books

• Pictures and artifacts.

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