for a while artillery teaches military at louisiana state and writes scholarly papers on civil war artifacts, but during this period trouble develops on the homefront as art's wife, janet starts showing signs of bipolar disorder. >> there were weeks that she wouldn't get out of bed. so here's dad working full-time, and you know, he is doing laundry and everything else. >> your dad had so much to handle at home. do you think collecting became an escape? >> somebody else would pick april book or watch a movie but for him it was his collection. >> he keeps receepts for just about everything. for a few hundred dollars he buys a rare rising breach made for the confederate army. using his skills as a military historian art is able to turn the serial numbers on the weapons to the stories behind them. >> it was like a good mystery novel that he had to know the