Bermuda National Trust Museum

National Trust Museum St George The Bermuda National Trust Museum is housed in one of Bermuda’s oldest stone buildings. Built around 1700 by Governor Samuel Day it was originally used as his residence. At some point in the mid 19th century it was the site of the Globe Hotel.

During the American Civil War it served as headquarters to Confederate agents. Bermuda was a staging post for cotton shipments to England from Confederate ports such as Wilmington, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. Speedy steamships would run the Union blockades and unload their cargo in Bermuda. Here it would be transferred to ships heading for England in exchange for materials needed in the South which would be run back through the blockade via Bermuda. Today the exhibition at the museum ‘Rogues and Runners: Bermuda and the American Civil War’ illustrates the role that Bermuda played in the conflict.

The Bermuda National Trust offer a combination ticket for $10 which allows entrance to the Bermuda National Trust Museum, the Tucker House Museum and the Verdmont Museum.

Reviews / Comments / Additional Information

Michael McAlpin

I urge you to return to the original name, or if for some unknown reason that impossible, call it the Blockade Runners Museum.

Betty B. Young

I look forward to the original name of the Museum being restored so that I can visit it and Bermuda. The current pejorative name is entirely inappropriate to the brave men who fought for their country, some of whom are my ancestors.

Betty Young

I cannot add to the articulate comments already submitted, except to say that when a relative just mentioned to me of his visit in 1991 to the Confederate Museum, I was looking forward to seeing it for myself. I honor my Confederate ancestors and will not visit a place where they are vilified by calling them "rogues". It is my hope that you will restore the museum's name and leave revisionist history to others. In the meantime, I will alert the many others who feel as I do and would be profoundly saddened were they to visit your new Rogues and Rebels presentation. July 2011

Raphael Waldburg-Zeil

I am against any manoeuvre to change historical facts by focusing them according to certain new political correctness mandates. Bermuda can feel pride of having been operational base of the heroic blockade-runners which brought much needed medicines and other products to the invaded South during the American War between the States. Why have you changed the Museum´s original name? Confederate Museum! Why the Confederate flag is gone? A historical flag of that place! An the exhibition? Rogues? I think The Bermuda National Trust should change its strange politics, they deny history and their own past. Thank you.

C.K. Sivley

As a Southern American I too am disgusted by those who portray my ancestors as the "Nazis", the "Huns", the "Barbarians". The South did not invade the North and destroy, plunder, rape and murder 60,000 women, children and old men. The South did not start the war the north did! Lincoln was what we call a socialist today but they called themselves Radicals or Statist back in 1860-77.
The war was fought for greed, lust and political power by the north.
Veo Vindice

Doug Stewart

"Rogues and Runners"! Are you crazy??
My direct ancestors fought for the Confederacy, against the Northern invasion of the Confederate States of America.
Secondly, there was NO civil war. The Confederate States of America had no interest whatsoever in taking over the government of the USA. This would have been necessary in a REAL civil war. Civil war is what the North called it because they could not bear the guilt from the devastation they had caused to the South. They had to try to justify themselves in causing the deaths of over 600,000 Americans, including many women and children, and billions of dollars in property losses.
I recommend that you return to the running of the Confederate museum, and leave the recollection of history to those who've lived it!!

Clifton Palmer McLendon

The yankees were the rogues. They were the ones who committed atrocities against Southerners, both military and civilian. (German and Japanese war criminals paid with their lives for doing less than some Northern soldiers did.)
The Confederate States of America was formed for the selfsame purpose as the original United States of America (1776): To guarantee the right of the governed to a government of their choosing rather than a government crammed down their throats.
Restore the Confederate Flag and the original name of the museum.

Sheila Blevins

I agree...the name should not be detrimental to the heritage of the brave Confederates that fought for our freedom from oppression from our own government. The definition of a rogue is: a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. Confederates are/were neither!

Dr. Arnold M. Huskins

As a Southern American, I'm offended by the name "Rogues and Rebels". Perhaps "Blockade Runner Museum" is more appropriate.

Robert H. Rihl

You have insulted my family. They were not "Rogues and Runners." They were Americans who fought for their states which wanted independence from the United States. Put the Confederate flag back up and call it The Confederate Museum once again.