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    CIVIL WAR FOR SALE

    Mar 24, 2020 6 minutes
    With John Banks

    STEPS FROM A CHILLING amputation display, militaria dealer Larry Hicklen wears a mile-wide grin. But the sight of a 19th-century prosthetic limb or the image of a one-armed veteran isn’t what has him jazzed as he stands on the ground floor of the Middle Tennessee Civil War Show.

    It’s the sea of tables spread out before him at Franklin’s sprawling Williamson County Agricultural Expo Center, where roughly 550 dealers from 40 states—and two from overseas—offer for sale artifacts, oddities, and everything in between. And it’s hundreds of history buffs shouldering past each other in crowded, “excuse me” aisles on two floors, gawking at muskets, munitions, and more.

    In its 33rd year, the two-day event founded and owned by Hicklen vies with a Mansfield, Ohio, show held every May for bragging rights as “The Greatest Civil War Show in America.” Did Hicklen ever think it would become such a huge deal in

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