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Today the Battle Abbey forms the historic core of this museum.
By the time Battle Abbey opened in 1921, the various Confederate organizations that had taken an interest in it were fast declining.
As the original constituency of the Confederate Memorial Association (CMA) deid out, the CMA turned for help to the Virginia Historical Society, then residing in a cramped brick townhouse near Capitol Square.
On July 8, 1946, the Virginia Historical Society absorbed the CMA. After another decade, the generosity of Virginia and Alexander Weddell and Paul Mellon gave the historical society the means to enlarge Battle Abbey. |