ed pickett's charge against the museum -- next. >> now back to "strange inheritance." >> in 2001, ed facts, passed down from his great-great grandfather, confederate general george pickett. but ed feels it's a hollow victory, as those artifacts go on display at the newly-opened national civil war museum in harrisburg, pennsylvania -- whose mayor wrote pickett a letter endorsing the con man who'd swindled him. >> what's most unfortunate is that the city of harrisburg is quite willing to take items that were taken by fraud and keep them. >> fbi agent robert wittman investigated the case. >> ultimately, the museum paid $880,000 for these artifacts, so they paid what they're supposed to. >> i think a better result would have been the city and the national civil war museum to say, "i am so sorry. let me give you your items back and we are going to sue russ pritchard for defrauding us." >> current museum c.e.o. wayne motts, who took over in 2012, believes the pickett items are best suited at their current home. >> i think it was regretful and unfortunate what happened to mr. pickett but the