Civil War relics

AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr.

A Oct. 2, 2012, photo, shows some of the collection of Robert Sackhei, who owns one of the largest private collections of Civil War weaponry in the country. The Blue And Gray Museum on Bank Street in Decatur, Ala., features an array of his weapons and munitions. Sackheim said this pistol is his favorite piece. It belonged to Union Army Brigadier General Joseph Mansfield, commander of the XII Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He was killed during battle at Antietam in Maryland in 1862.

Robert Sackheim is pictured in his museum in Decatur, Ala. on Oct. 2, 2012. Sackheim owns one of the largest private collections of Civil War weaponry in the country.

This carte de visite photograph of General William Tecumseh Sherman, seen at the Blue And Gray Museum in an Oct. 2, 2012, photo, was taken by the famous war photographer Matthew Brady.

In an Oct. 2, 2012, photo, cases of pistols and cases of rifles at the Blue And Gray Museum show some of the great variety of weaponry used during the Civil War.

Robert Sackheim is pictured in his museum in Decatur, Ala. on Oct. 2, 2012. Sackheim owns one of the largest private collections of Civil War weaponry in the country.

This photograph seen at the Blue And Gray Museum in an Oct. 2, 2012, photo, was taken by the famous war photographer Matthew Brady.

Robert Sackheim's collection of Civil War weaponry includes many carte de vista, daguerreotype and tin type photographs, shown in an Oct. 2, 2012 photo.

This carte de visite photograph of General William Tecumseh Sherman, seen at the Blue And Gray Museum in an Oct. 2, 2012, photo, was taken by the famous war photographer Matthew Brady.