A wallet belonging to a member of the original Prattville Dragoons was recently donated to the Museum at Confederate Memorial Park, after having been authenticated by Dragoon Camp member and artifact expert Paul Whaley.
SCV member David L Rogers of Ogeechee Rifles SCV Camp 941, Statesboro, Georgia, had found the wallet in a thrift
store there and very generously offered it to Dragoon Tyrone Crowley to do with
as he saw fit, as a donation to a museum in Alabama. The wallet, pictured below, was owned by
Prattville Dragoons veteran Thomas Whetstone Smith, (1836-1916). The wallet is
inscribed in ink "Thomas W. Smith, Prattville, Alabama, June 17, 1862” and
is of high-quality suede leather. The
wallet is in very good shape for its age, since it probably spent most of its
life in the bottom of a trunk. Statesboro is about 50 miles west of Savannah,
Georgia, and it’s unclear why the wallet ended up in a thrift store there.
Thomas Whetstone Smith’s wallet will
soon be on display at the Museum at Confederate Memorial Park. A wallet similar to this one is already on
display in the Dragoon Room/War Room at the Prattaugan Museum where a Wedding Exhibit is now on
display at the Prattaugan Museum with dresses
from the 1850s to the present day on display.
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