Shannon Pritchard has lived on the battlefields around Richmond, Virginia, since the time of his birth.  He has been hunting and collecting Confederate antiques for more than thirty years and has been for the last ten years a full time dealer.  His love of all things Confederate prompted him to found www.oldsouthantiques.com, which has grown into the largest all Confederate antiques dealership in the world. 

     He has written numerous articles about the history, authentication, care, and conservation of Confederate antiques for North South Trader’s Civil War, Civil War Courier, The Civil War News and other War Between the States periodicals and is the author of the definitive work on Confederate collectibles, the widely acclaimed Collecting the Confederacy, Artifacts and Antiques from the War Between the States.  He also does speaking engagements relating to the joys and the pitfalls of collecting Confederate memorabilia.  Shannon is a current or past member of the Civil War Preservation Trust, the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association, the Captain William Latane Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Museum of the Confederacy,  the North American Vexillogical Association, the National Rifle Association, the Southeastern Arms Collectors Association, Southern Historical Society, the Texas Gun Collectors Association and he frequently does consultations for the country’s major Confederate oriented museums and societies.

     He, his wife Lesia and son Caleb make their home in Old Church, Virginia.

May God Bless You and Yours,
Shannon & Lesia Pritchard