You've seen movies about Americans in German POW camps during World War II -- "The Great Escape," "Stalag 17," and so forth. But did you know that more than 8,000 German – and Italian -- prisoners were held right here in South Carolina during that global conflict? A network of... read more →

The ghosts of the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum are on the move. For years, Joe Long – curator of education at the museum – has presented spooky stories associated with the Relic Room’s history artifacts, and the long-dead (allegedly) people who once owned and used them.... read more →

The Battle of Eutaw Springs was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War to be fought in South Carolina. Who won? It depends on whom you ask. The battle took place on Sept. 8, 1781, about two miles east of present-day Eutawville, in Orangeburg County. Kim Stacy, a veteran... read more →

Since opening its extensive Vietnam War exhibit on Veterans Day 2022, the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum has presented many Noon Debrief programs featuring Vietnam veterans from South Carolina – infantrymen, sailors, Marines, pilots, intelligence officers and others. But the live lecture series has never featured any of... read more →

If you’ve served in the U.S. military in the last 60 years, you are quite familiar with the M16 rifle – intimately so, if you were in the Army or Marines. Now, civilians have a chance to learn the details about why this weapon, and its lighter successor the M4... read more →

Glen Inabinet was a bit farther along in life, a bit more mature, than the average draftee who went to Vietnam. He was an old married man of 25, and he had plans. He’d already been to college. He enlisted rather than waiting to be drafted, and looking ahead, he... read more →

There were more Revolutionary War battles fought in South Carolina than anywhere else, but we have to admit that there were some significant fights elsewhere. And the 250th anniversary of one of them is coming up on June 17. Four days before that, Joe Long, curator of education at the... read more →