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Best friend.d he followed me m arounde like a puppy. helped me carry dry wall to a construction site. he sat on the beach with my children while my wife and i d a went surfing.w he kept asking can i see the artifacts? ed finally fam agrees to shoh pritchard what s inside that old family suitcase. the next few hours are a revelation for ed. that old cap is called a keppie and it was worn a by general , pickett at gettysburg. there s his bloodstained uniform sleeve, personal letters, photos, his military sash and wn this, pickett s own hand-drawn map of the gettysburg battlefield. he was very knowledgeable, he no what everything was. a tell me about the reaction oo was pritchard s face. n he was delighted. it s like he found a gold mine and he said i m prepared on behalf of the mayor to make you an offer. nder who did you feel he represented? your interests or the museum s ....
three years later in the summer of 1998, ed accepts an invitation to a dinner and he s introduced to historian earl coates. i knew he was an expert in clothing. i asked him how much would a keppie be worth. it stunned me. i said you mean the general s? he said yeah. whoa. and of course at that moment the room got very silent. he said well, it could be worth a lot of money, $200,000, $250,000 just for the keppie alone. i said that s more than i got for everything. but ed doesn t want to believe he s been swindled. he considers russ pritchard a friend. you trusted him so much you let him babysit your infant. that s correct. earl suggests that find out more. through his connections he discovered how much the museum ....