The Horse Soldier

This store is a cut above just about any other antique or souvenir store in Gettysburg — in fact, you could say it’s like a museum where you can buy the exhibits. The quantity, quality and organization of the items is superb, and staff has always been friendly and helpful (I have visited at least five times over the last two years). If your passion is antique weaponry you will probably be tempted to take out a second mortgage (some of the rarer items run into the tens of thousands of dollars) but there’s something authentic and historical here for every price point. Make sure to leave plenty of time to browse!

If you are into original authentic quality civil war relics and antiques or desire to view such items, look no further, this is the place. It’s not a cheap souvenir shop, the items here are real, authentic and ultra-​pricey. In fact, you can skip most of the museums, as The Horse Soldier has more than they do and viewing them is free.
When I say ultra-​pricey, I really mean ultra-​pricey. For example, the price of an authentic Confederate Officers I noted was set at $ 32,500 (see my photo) and that is for real, they mean it. Authentic Civil War items are prized and popular with collectors, and as far as those items go, The Horse Soldier not only seems to have the most of them but the very best of them. The people who staff The Horse Soldier really know their stuff and stick with it, keeping it real without fakes, reproductions or phonies.

Why pay to go to museum when you go into this store it’s filled with artifacts from the Civil War I bought one myself for just $ 20 there’s guns there’s posters pictures uniforms you name it it’s a supermarket of historical items from the Civil War and World War II World War I

Very impressive collection of primarily 19^th century artifacts. Especially firearms. They have private parking on the side of the building. Even if you aren’t buying this is a cool place to just browse.

the horse soldier is a great place for any collector like THE PEOPLE’S MUSEUM and Mark Sepanski we buy a lot of Military thing from the Horse Soldier since 1982 so go to the horse soldier

My husband and I visited here Jan 23,2015, we had made a special 3 hour trip just to visit The Horse Soldier. We had looked online, and found several interesting artifacts, two of which we wanted to purchase.
We decided to drive down to Gettysburg. We also brought an antique firearm to possibly have appraised, and or, put on consignment. The Horse Soldier had a large selection of different antique firearms, swords, and other civil war memorabilia. We had a nice time looking at all the merchandise, and were interested in purchasing a few items, until we went into the middle room with a desk for the employees. There were workers going in and out of the one emergency exit. When we were walking into the middle room, one of the employees came out of that door. He was very angry, throwing keys on his desk, making loud noises. He was talking very loudly, almost yelling to another older employee saying profanities how he is sick of this place, ready to quit, and not come back! He was using very inapropriate profanities and racial slurs about his job and his coworkers! He was also complaining about a young college student working the front desk. We were in the same room where he was talking, and I left the room while my husband stayed in the room, trying to ignore the employees and trying to enjoy all the merchandise. I felt extremely uncomfortable because of his language, and tone of voice, I wanted to leave at that moment, but let my husband try to view the rest of the store. Not once did anyone of the employees ask us if we needed assistance or help with anything we were looking for. We felt so uncomfortable we never even talked to anyone about putting our firearm on consignment. There is no way that we were going to let a very disgruntled employee handle our documented revolver! We will never ever return to this store because of the way we felt in the store, and how the employees behaved in a most inappropriate and very unprofessional manner! I would never buy anything from The Horse Soldier, even if I really fell in love with an item. This was a major disappointment to say the least. I know that this was an off season visit. I would think, as a business owner, all the more reason to be attentive to the only customers in the store! Great items, terrible employees! I will never waste my time with this poorly run establishment again!!!

I have purchased several items over the past year, including a musket, buckles and pistol among other things, both in person and on line. I have found the staff to be most helpful and knowledgeable. Although I am no expert, it appears that their prices are reasonable. What they say is what you get.

This business has a LOT of artifacts — some are quite rare and expensive while others are more affordable. They have a wide selection of antique weaponry (their specialty evidently) as well as smaller artifacts, documents, and photos. It is all a bit overwhelming as so much of it is crammed into the space.
Their prices were quite reasonable, in my opinion.
Alas, I cannot say that for the customer service. Compared to The Union Drummer Boy store, their service is awful. We asked several different staff members to help us find a nice, reasonably priced artifact we could take a souvenir, preferably related to Indiana or North Carolina (our home states), but all they would say is «we don’t have anything from there» and move on to the next person or one guy just flat out stopped talking to us without even anyone else to help.
If you don’t want assistance or only want very specific assistance for a specific item you have already seen in the store, their service is awful. But, they do have a wide variety reasonably priced… so it’s worth a stop in.