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Accepts a invitation to speak at the gettysburg. >> i asked him, how much would that be worth. >> he stunned me, i said the general's, he said yes. woe. >> >> that that moment the room got vie libsilent, he said it coulde worse a lot of money, 250. >> thousand? >> yes. i said, that is more than i got for everything. >> ed does not want to believe he was swindled, he considers russ preufrpar pritchard a frie. you trusted him so much, you let him baby sit your infant. >> correct. jamie: he discovers how much museum paid pritchard. how much? >> over $800,000.

Middle. that is what he said, he could not over estimate or underestimate the value of it. >> russ comes up with an offer to buy most of the contents of the case, $87,500, now ed thinks he struck gold. >> i thought wow, that say lot of money to me. >> it did look fair. >> it seemed fair to me, that is more money than i had ever gotten in my life. >> he accepts and a check and signs away the item, pitchard departs with the pikit artifacts, but general pickett's grand-great grandson is in for the shock of his life, he finds out what happened to his family heirloom. >> all lies, he lied to me. >>...

Sure. can i go out and play? >> whether he appreciates it or not, ed takes possession of suitcase in early 90s, his by family tradition as first born pickett male, after his mother moved into an assisted living facility, she warns her son to move it from the family home before someone steals it. >> i got it out of closet, i did not take time right away to to look through it i opened it, said okay, and closed it moved on. >> it was tucked, a again, at ed's house. he has no time to play curator. >> i spent time with my own children, that was more important to me than looking through stuff. >> ed...

Now, back to "strange inheritance." >> in 2001, ed pickett wins a second legal battle over his civil war artifacts. past down from his great great grandfather, confederate general george pickett. ed feels it's a hollow victory, as those artifacts go on display in harrisburg, pennsylvania, whose mayor wrote pickett endorsing the con man who had swindled him. >> what's most unfortunate is harrisburg is willing to take items taken by fraud and keep them. >> fbi agent robert whitman investigated the case. >> ultimately the museum paid $880,000 for these artifacts, so they paid what they're suppose...

Anymore. >> this is quite a section of your family history. what are you going to do with it now? >> i'll probably give it to my children. we don't really get to choose our names when we're born, and we have to do whatever we can to live up to it. i've to some extent ducked that legacy. but also honored it in the same way. >> ed is not done fighting the battle over his strange inheritance. for one thing, he thinks there should be a statue right here at gettysburg honoring his great great grandfather and his men. in other ways, george edward pickett iv feels it's time to move on. when his own s...