From the September 13, 2015, Charleston (SC) Post & Courier "Canada to return Civil War commander's lost sword to the Citadel" by Robert Behre.
"A single sword unites the Citadel with the South Carolina's Governor's Mansion, the 33 Signal Regt. of the Canadian Army and the single bloodiest day in U.S. military history."
And, it's coming home soon.
Confederate Colonel Charles Courtenay Tew was killed at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. His sword was lost and his descendants have been searching for it ever since.
Charles Tew was the Citadel's first valedictorian and the first president of its alumni association. The sword was given to him by the cadets at the Arsenal, a Columbia, S.C., military academy that was the Citadel's sister institution. The Arsenal was burned by Sherman's troops in the closing days of the war and never reopened. Its sole surviving building is the state's Governor's Mansion.
--Old Secesh
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