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Category: Veterans GAR and UCV
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GAR Escutcheon for Medal of Honor Winner - 1st Vermont Cavalry
Framed escutcheon commemorating the service of Eri M. Woodbury, company E, 1st Vermont Cavalry. Woodbury was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry displayed at the battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19th 1864. Please see the images for more details of his outstanding service history. These were popular with veterans in the post war period. Woodbury himself commissioned this document for his wife. The frame measures 28 x 22 inches.
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Lot of 3 Early GAR Cuff Buttons
A pattern of GAR button that I had not seen before.
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Lot of 2 GAR Cuff Buttons
GAR buttons, one with a tin back.
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GAR and Sons of Veterans Reference
Just published. Plates, Belts and Swords of the Grand Army of the Republic and The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
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Named West Virginia Veterans Medal - 13th Infantry
West Virginia Veterans Medal named to Private Robert O. Eckard of company B, 13th WV Infantry. Medal shows little wear on medal and the original ribbon. Name and regiment are clearly stamped around the outer edge of the drop.
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Named West Virginia Veterans Medal - 6th Infantry
West Virginia Veterans Medal named to Private Harmar F. Fleming of company A, 6th WV Infantry. Medal shows little wear on medal and the original ribbon. Name and regiment are clearly stamped around the outer edge of the drop.
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West Virginia 'FOR LIBERTY' Medal
West Virginia 'FOR LIBERTY' Medal issued to Thomas Sutler a veteran of battery E. 1st West Virginia Light Artillery. 'For Liberty' indicates that the recipient was wounded in action. The following is from "Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865" BATTERY E. Battery E was organized by Capt. Alexander C. Moore, at Buckhannan, West Virginia, in August, 1862; who was commissioned captain of the battery September 23, 1862. Captain Moore was one of West Virginia's loyal sons who was among the first in the State to illustrate his loyalty to the government by the most practical methods then known; his early enlistment in the army, from the earlest moment of the Secession agitation in the South, Captain Moore was in line, defending the Constitution of the nation in elo- quent pleadings upon the rostrum in the cities and towns throughout the counties of Harrison, Taylor, Lewis, Upshur, etc., and when recruits were called for, he enlisted company G, for the 3d West Virginia Infantry. Having commanded this company for one year in its active operations in the State, Captain Moore was well prepared to take charge of this new field of usefulness as an officer of Artillery. Re had little trouble, and spent little time in recruiting his company E, among his neighbors and friends who knew him best at Buckhannan and adjoining counties. And even before he had instilled the first lessons of the Artillery school into his company, and before they had been mustered into service he was called upon to defend the town against the advance of the Confederate General Jenkins. Immediately upon the completion of the enlistment of his company, he was ordered to Wheeling, and there was fully equipped. Then the battery was ordered to Clarksburg, and in turn to New Creek and Romney. At the latter place, the battery became, in 1863, a part of Campbell's Fourth Brigade, First Division, Eighth Army Corps, serving with this brigade in the South Branch Valley, at Romney, Moorefield and vicinity, and with General Kelley in his campaign in the summer of 1863, to Cherry Run, Williamsport and Hedges- ville on Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, returning with the brigade to the South Branch Valley, serving in that locality until the summer of 1864. Upon General Hunter's return from Lynchburg, the battery was ordered to join the Army of West Virginia, and accompanied it to the Shenandoah Valley, taking part in the engagements with the enemy at Snicker's Ferry, Cedar Creek, Kernstown, Bunker Hill and Berryville. At this time the battery was attached to the Artillery Brigade of the Army of West Virginia; was then in the fall of 1864, ordered to Maryland Heights, where it remained until January 1865, when the battery was ordered to the Artillery Camp at Camp Barry near Washington, D. C., and remained there until the close of the war. While at Maryland Heights, Battery B was consolidated with Battery E, by order of the War Department, the consolidated battery remaining Battery E, under the command of Captain Moore. Lieut. B. H. H. Atkinson and 55 men was the transfer from B. to E. While at Camp Barry, D. C., Pres- ident Lincoln was assassinated, and a detail from the battery of Lieut. Sam- uel A. Rapp and 3o men constituted a portion of the escort as the " Guard of Honor " accompanying the remains of Mr. Lincoln from the White House to the Capitol. At the close of the war, President Johnson conferred upon Captain Moore the rank of brevet major " for faithful and meritorious ser- vices during the war." Battery E was a good battery, composed of the intelligent, patriotic young men from the counties of Upshur, Harrison and Randolph. Officers and enlisted men were proud of each other, and there was no jealousy or bickering from the beginning to the end. Major Moore was a distinguished attorney at law when the war came, and his legal ability was occasionally during the war brought into service as the judge advocate of important courts-martial. The battery was mustered out of the service, June 28, 1865.
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World's Largest Civil War Veterans Canteen
This really cool Civil War Veterans Canteen is probably the largest in existence. It is right at 2 1/2 feet wide ! with a 3 1/2 inch tall spout that is 4 inches in diameter. The popular motto 'We Drank from the Same Canteen' is painted in silver letters on the front over original blue paint. Wooden stopper and iron chain cap off the top. A brass tap is built into the bottom. One can only imagine what sort of liquid this contained when in use at veterans reunions! A one of a kind veterans piece that would be at home in the most advanced collection. Most impressive!
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Named Southern Cross of Honor
Named Southern Cross of Honor to 'W.H. SMITH'. This one turned up in central South Carolina. I also have a nice clean Southern Cross with no name for $325.
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