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Family donates engraved Civil War sword to Milford Museum

By Brian Trompeter
Posted 3/21/25

The Milford Museum recently acquired an artifact that’s literally quite sharp.

The family of Gaithersburg, Maryland, resident Amy Ardolina gifted the facility an ornately engraved, Civil War-era sword and scabbard, once owned by Union Lt. Benjamin F. Butler, her great-great-great-great-grandfather.

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