DUVCW Member Marion Lane Visits the National Museum of African American History & Culture

Dr. Marion Lane, member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War (DUVCW) Mary Morris Husband Tent #58 visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC to see the artifact she donated to the museum on February 7, 2014.

The artifact is an engraved powder horn with scrimshaw decoration. One panel has two male figures dancing, one African-American, titled "New England Ladies Teaching Negroes". The other panel has an open tent with a seated African American and a standing white soldier with tattered uniform titled "Negro officer and white soldier" and a turned wooden tip.

In addition to being a member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Dr. Lane is also the author of two children’s books and serves on the Board of Directors of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

Dr. Marion Lane is pictured with the Civil War Era Powder Horn