Sedalia police working to retrieve stolen Civil War artifacts that were stolen from museum

Sedalia police announced that several thousand dollars-worth of Civil War artifacts have been stolen from a museum.

A Pettis County Museum official told police that he tracked missing items, including a surgical kit, firearms and sword, to a Tennessee collector. The collector told police he had purchased the artifacts from a man who volunteered at the museum until the fall of 2017.

Officers called the volunteer “deceitful” after they questioned him on how he obtained the artifacts.

The former volunteer later confessed and the case has been turned over to prosecutors.

The collector resold the artifacts, and police and the historical society are working to retrieve as many of them as possible.