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SOLD!!! A nice ladder badge worn by a veteran of the 4th Wisconsin Infantry/Cavalry. The 4th Wisconsin infantry started as an infantry unit and finished the war as a cavalry unit. There are two ladders and a shield making this badge. The first ladder says "Co. M". The second ladder says "4th Reg.". The shield says "Wis. Vol.". There are crossed rifles on the shield.
The Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry was organized as the 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment at Camp Utley, Racine, WI, and mustered into the service of the United States on the July 2nd, 1861. It left the state on the 15th of July, proceeding to Baltimore, MD, and into camp at the Relay House, MD, August 5, 1861, remaining on duty there until early in November when the regiment was transferred to Baltimore. It remained there until the latter part of February, 1862, when it proceeded to Newport News, VA, from which point the Fourth embarked on the 6th of March to join the "Army of the Gulf." It arrived at Ship Island below New Orleans March 12, 1862, and landed in New Orleans on May 1st. It was at once assigned to active service and took part with an expedition up the Mississippi River against Vicksburg in May, and another in June, and with this force occupied Baton Rouge, LA, a little later in the year. The forces there were employed in successful expeditions during that winter, and in May were collected with a view of capturing Port Hudson, LA, in which siege and sanguinary contest the Fourth participated May 21 to July 8,1863. This was the last service of the Fourth as a regiment of Infantry. On the 1st of September, 1863, the regiment was by order of the War Department equipped as a cavalry regiment. Thereafter the Fourth regiment was actively and almost constantly engaged in scouting, picketing and accompanying expeditions of various points in Louisiana and Mississippi until July, 1865, when with other troops it was transferred to Texas near the Rio Grande. Companies of the regiment were detached to guard different points along the line of that river, and the whole command remained in this service until the latter part of May, 1866, when the regiment was transferred to Madison, WI, which place was reached June 14th and the regiment was soon thereafter mustered out of service of the United States and disbanded. Source: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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SOLD!!! A very hard to find ribbon worn by Confederate Veterans of Savannah, Georgia. This great ribbon has a Confederate battle flag surrounded by a wreath in the middle of the ribbon. Written on the ribbon is "1861 - Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah, GA. - 1865". The ribbon is approxiamtely 5 3/4 inches by 2 inches.
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SOLD! SOLD! SOLD! A wonderful CSA lapel pin which is highly unusual! This great pin is silver looking and has "1861 - C.S.A. - 1865" written on it. The words are surrounded by a wreath. A brass lapel stud is attached.
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SOLD!!! One of the nicest Winnie Davis badge, I have ever seen! This great badge has a celluloid pin of Winnie Davis in a brass pin holder. This is attached to a red and white rosette which has three ribbons hanging from it.
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SOLD!!! A very hard to find Delaware Grand Army of the Republic state membership badge. The hanger has "DELAWARE" written on the it. Two chains are attached to the the ahnger and a middle drop. Written on the middle drop is "G.A.R.". The bottom drop is in the shape of a bucket filled with peaches. Written on the bucket is"Peach Plucks". A yellow ribbon is attached to the back of the hanger. The pin is atttached to the back of the hanger.
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SOLD!!! A fantastic badge from the 1917 Mississippi state reunion held at the Vicksburg Blue & Gray Peace Jubilee. The hanger is a celluloid button with the United States flag crossed with the Confederate battle flag. Attached to the celluloid button is a white ribbon. Written on the ribbon is red ink is " Delegate - 27th Annual Reunion - MISS> DIV> U.C.V. - Vicksburg, Oct. 15, 1917 - and - Peace Jubilee - Blue & Gray - Oct. 16 - 19, 1917". This badge was manufactured by the St. Louis Button Company, St. Louis, Missouri. A paper label is attached to the inside of the hanger pin.
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SOLD!!! A neat badge worn at the 1901 United Confederate Veterans reunion held in Memphis, Tennessee. The badge is round and made of metal. It has "Memphis - 1901 - UCV" written on it. In the middle surrounding the "UCV" are three enameld stripes -red, white, and red. This badge has a stick pin attached to the back of the badge. Tou see these in both lapel pins and badges with stick pins. Written on the back of the badge is "Official Button - W. & H. Co., Newark, N.J.". The badge as noted on the back was made by The Whitehead & Hoag Company, Newark, New Jersey.
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A nice regimental badge worn by veterans of the 9th Connecticut Infantry. The 9th Infantry was Connecticut's Irish regiment. The hanger is somewhat rectangular and has "9. Conn. V.I." (standing for 9th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry) on it. Two small chains attach the drop whichis in the shape of a 19th Corp badge. In the middle of the drop is "19". Three sides of the drop have blue enamel. The Ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers (Connecticut’s “Irish Regiment”) was organized in New Haven in September of 1861. They were transported to Ship Island, MS on the Gulf Coast by the end of the year where they saw action as well as in New Orleans the following spring. During the summer of 1862 they were part of the first campaign against Vicksburg and assigned to the “Williams Canal” operation, an unsuccessful Federal project to divert the course of the Mississippi River, bypass Confederate guns at Vicksburg and win control of the Mississippi. Beginning there the regiment lost 150 men due to the lack of supplies, heat, dysentery and malaria conditions in a four month period. At Baton Rouge Colonel Thomas Cahill of the Ninth took command of the Federal troops after the death of Brigadier General Williams and successfully repulsed the Confederate attack. After being assigned to defend New Orleans they later served in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and played a prominent role in General Sheridan’s 1864 victory at Cedar Creek.
The 9th Connecticut Infantry RegimentSERVICE.--Expedition to Biloxi and Pass Christian April 2-5, 1862. Biloxi April 3. Pass Christian April 4. Operations against Forts St. Phillip and Jackson, Miss. River April 15-28. Moved to New Orleans April 29-May 1. Occupation of New Orleans May 1. Expedition to New Orleans and Jackson R. R. May 9-10. Moved to Baton Rouge May 13. Reconnaissance to Warrenton May 14-29. Williams' expedition to Vicksburg, Miss., and operations against that city June 20-July 23. Ellis Cliff June 22. Hamilton Plantation, near Grand Gulf, June 24. Arrived at Vicksburg June 25. Fatigue duty on Vicksburg Canal until July 23. Moved to Baton Rouge July 23-26, and duty there until August 21. Battle of Baton Rouge August 5. Moved to Carrollton August 21-22. Expedition to St. Charles September 7-8. Near St. Charles Court House September 8. Duty in the defenses of New Orleans until April, 1864, at New Orleans, Algiers, Mexican Gulf R. R. and mouth of the Mississippi and at Pass Manchac, Bonnet Carte, St. John Baptist District, October 19, 1862. Expedition to Ponchatoula March 21-30, 1863 (Detachment). Capture of Ponchatoula March 24 (Detachment). Action at Chackahoola Station, La., June 24 (Cos. "C," "E," "G," "I" and "K"). Expedition to Madisonville January 3, 1864. On veteran furlough in Connecticut April 15-July 16, 1864. Moved to Bermuda Hundred, Va., July 16-20. On Bermuda Hundred front July 20-28. Deep Bottom July 28-29. Moved to Washington, D.C., July 30-August 1, thence to Tenallytown August 1. Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign August to December. Battle of Opequan, Winchester, September 19. Fisher's Hill September 22. Battle of Cedar Creek October 19. Duty in the Shenandoah Valley until January, 1865. Moved to Savannah, Ga., January 6-20 and duty there until May 24. Moved to Hilton, S.C., May 24. Mustered out at Savannah, Ga., August 3, 1865. Regiment lost during service 10 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 240 Enlisted men by disease. Total 253.
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SOLD!!! A great identified Ohio state medal awared to Civil War veterans from the state of Ohio. The Ohio state medal was crafted by Tiffany & Company. The front has the Union( in the form of a lady) crowning a soldier with a wreath. Underneath is "1861 - 1865". On the back of the medal is the award surrounded in a wreath. It says "The State of Ohio to HenY Heltzel Veteran 26th Ind. BattY. Ohio Volunteers ART.". Tiffany & Co. is under the wreath on the bottom.
The 26th Independent Battery was assigned with the 32nd Ohio Infantry. The battery was actually Company F, 32nd Ohio Infantry. It fought with the 32 Ohio for the whole war. Henry Heltzel enlisted in September 1861 and mustered out in September 1865.
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A really nice badge worn by veterans of the 10th Massachusetts Infantry at the North Adams 1896 reunion. The front of the badge has a photo of Company B's Camp Ground of 1861 as it is today. Written on the front of the badge is "29th Annual Reunion - 10th Massachusetts Reg't Association. Local Prosperity made Possible by "The Old 10th." - North Adams, June 23, 1896 - Company B's Camp Ground of 1861. As it is to-day.". A silver metalic fring is attached to the ribbon. On the back of the ribbon are railrod tracks and a tunnel with "We Hold The Western Gateway - 1865 - North Adams, Mass." written on it. Below are all the battles the 10th massachusetts participated in from 1862 until 1864. These include Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. The badge is approximately 10 1/4 inches by 2 13 /16 inches.
TENTH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY THREE YEARS
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SOLD!!! A super badge from the 54th Massachusetts Infantry monument! This great monument badge was a souvenir from the 1897 monument dedication. The hanger has an eagle and says "Souvenir". A blue and gray ribbon is attached. The drop is in the style of the bronze tablet from the monument. Colonel Robert Shaw is riding his horse alon side his black soldiers. The badge is made by Bastain & Brothers COmpany, Rochester, New York. Their company name is stamped on the back of the drop.
Since the movie "Glory" came out, it has been almost impossible to find any 54 Massachusetts Infantry items. Don't miss this one.
The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry
In January 1863, Secretary of War Stanton finally gave John A. Andrew, the abolitionist governor of Massachusetts, authorization to form regiments that could "include persons of African descent. . ." The governor had long been an advocate of raising black regiments from the free black population. Like most abolitionists, he felt the surest path to citizenship for black Americans was for them to be allowed to fight and die for their freedom and their country. Andrew chose the white officers for the new black regiment from wealthy families prominent in the abolition movement in his state. These families could also be counted on to help finance the enlistment and outfitting of the troops. He solicited the aid of Frederick Douglass and other well known black abolitionists in attracting the cream of the black population for the new regiment. Two of Douglass's sons joined the regiment. Given the considerable opposition in the North to the idea of making soldiers of blacks, the new regiment was seen as a good test of the fitness of black men as soldiers and citizens. Supporters of the regiments spared no expense in the effort to prove that blacks were equal to the test. The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was the first black regiment recruited in the North. Col. Robert Gould Shaw, the 25 year old son of very wealthy abolitionist parents, was chosen to command. On May 28, the well equipped and drilled 54th paraded through the streets of Boston and then boarded ships bound for the coast of South Carolina. Their first conflict with Confederate soldiers came on July 16, when the regiment repelled an attack on James Island. But on July 18 came the supreme test of the courage and valor of the black soldiers; they were chosen to lead the assault on Battery Wagner, a Confederate fort on Morris Island at Charleston. In addressing his soldiers before leading them in charge across the beach, Colonel Shaw said, "I want you to prove yourselves. The eyes of thousands will look on what you do tonight." More than a century after the war the Fifty-fourth remains the most famous black regiment of the war, due largely to the popularity of the movie "Glory", which recounts the story of the regiment prior to and including the attack on Battery Wagner. The 54th MassachusettsEarly in February 1863, the abolitionist Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts issued the Civil War’s first call for black soldiers. Massachusetts did not have many African-American residents, but by the time 54th Infantry regiment headed off to training camp two weeks later more than 1,000 men had volunteered. Many came from other states, such as New York, Indiana and Ohio; some even came from Canada. One-quarter of the volunteers came from slave states and the Caribbean. Fathers and sons (some as young as 16) enlisted together. The most famous enlistees were Charles and Lewis Douglass, two sons of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass. To lead the 54th Massachusetts, Governor Andrew chose a young white officer named Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw’s parents were wealthy and prominent abolitionist activists. Shaw himself had dropped out of Harvard to join the Union Army and had been injured in battle at Antietam. He was just 25 years old. "So Full of Hope and Glory"At nine o’clock on the morning on May 28, 1863, the 54th’s 1,007 black soldiers and 37 white officers gathered in the Boston Common and prepared to head to the battlefields of the South. They did so in spite of an announcement by the Confederate Congress that every captured black soldier would be sold into slavery and every white officer in command of black troops would be executed. Cheering well-wishers, including the anti-slavery advocates William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass, lined Boston’s streets. “I know not,” Governor Andrew said at the close of the parade, “where in all human history to any given thousand men in arms there has been committed a work at once so proud, so precious, so full of hope and glory as the work committed to you.” That evening, the 54th Infantry boarded a transport ship bound for Charleston. Tragedy at Fort WagnerColonel Shaw and his troops landed at Hilton Head on June 3. The next week, they were forced by Shaw’s superiors to participate in a particularly destructive raid on the town of Darien, Georgia. The colonel was furious: His troops had come South to fight for freedom and justice, he argued, not to destroy undefended towns with no military significance. He wrote to General George Strong and asked if the 54th might lead the next Union charge on the battlefield. Even as they fought to end slavery in the Confederacy, the African-American soldiers of the 54th were fighting against another injustice as well. The U.S. Army paid black soldiers $10 a week; white soldiers got $3 more. To protest against this insult, the entire regiment--soldiers and officers alike--refused to accept their wages until black and white soldiers earned equal pay for equal work. This did not happen until the war was almost over. On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts prepared to storm Fort Wagner, which guarded the Port of Charleston. At dusk, Shaw gathered 600 of his men on a narrow strip of sand just outside Wagner’s fortified walls and readied them for action. “I want you to prove yourselves,” he said. “The eyes of thousands will look on what you do tonight.” As night fell, Shaw led his men over the walls of the fort. (This was unusual; typically, officers followed their soldiers into battle.) Unfortunately, the Union generals had miscalculated: 1,700 Confederate soldiers waited inside the fort, ready for battle. The men of the 54th were outgunned and outnumbered. Two hundred and eighty one of the 600 charging soldiers were killed, wounded or captured. Shaw himself was shot in the chest on his way over the wall and died instantly. To show their contempt for the soldiers of the 54th, the Confederates dumped all of their bodies in a single unmarked trench and cabled Union leaders that “we have buried [Shaw] with his niggers.” The Southerners expected that this would be such an insult that white officers would no longer be willing to fight with black troops. In fact, the opposite was true: Shaw’s parents replied that there could be “no holier place” to be buried than “surrounded by…brave and devoted soldiers.” The 54th lost the battle at Fort Wagner, but they did a great deal of damage there. Confederate troops abandoned the fort soon afterward. For the next two years, the regiment participated in a series of successful siege operations in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The 54th Massachusetts returned to Boston in September 1865. "The Pride, Courage and Devotion of the Patriot Soldier"On Memorial Day 1897, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens unveiled a memorial to the 54th Massachusetts at the same spot on the Boston Common where the regiment had begun its march to war 34 years before. The statue, a three-dimensional bronze frieze, depicts Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th as they marched heroically off to war. Above them floats an angel holding an olive branch, a symbol of peace, and a bouquet of poppies, a symbol of remembrance. The Shaw Memorial still stands today.
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SOLD!!!A great grouping of 1st Lieutenant Daniel Long's Civil War reunion items.The first piece of the grouping is a 145th Pennsylvania Infantry reunion ribbon. The ribbon is off white and has a Second Corp symbol in the middle of the ribbon. Written on the ribbon is "Reunion - 145th Regiment, Penn'a Vols.". The second item is a beautiful Type 4 Grand Army of the Republic membership badge. According to "Membership and national Encampment Badges of the Grand Army of the Republic 1866 -1949" the Type 4 has strait wings and were only manufactured between 1880 and 1884. The third item is a paper article about Daniel Long. Written on the article is "12/20/89". In the article it talks about Lt. Long being wounded in the shoulder and lung at the Battle of Fredericksburg. This was Long's final battle. The fourth item is a hand written paper by one of Long's relatives. The fifth item is a velvet type red folding case. A nice grouping of a great 2nd Corp regiment.
145th Regiment The companies for the 145th regiment were recruited as follows:They rendezvoused at the camp near the city of Erie, which had been previously occupied by the Eighty-third, and the One Hundred and Eleventh regiments, where, on the 5th of September, 1862, a regimental organization was effected, with the following field officers:
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A fantastic badge from a 1887 Gettysburg reunion of General George Picketts men and the veterans of the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry, the California Regiment. The badge was worn at the monument dedication and reception of Picketts men on July 2-3-4, 1887. The really neat thing about this badge is a menu to the 2nd Anniversary Supper of the 71st Pennsylvania is attached to the back of the badge. If you have the opportunity to own one of these badges, you probably don't have a menu attached to the back!
The badge is half blue and half gray. Written in gold lettering on the badge is "California Regiment - 71 PA. Dedication of Monument and Reception of Picketts Division - Gettysburg, PA. - July 2-3-4, 1887". The badge has metalic fringe attached to the ribbon is approximately 7 3/4 inches by 2 1/2 inches. Attached to the back of the badge is the menu discussed above. What a great and hard to find badge!!! Picketts Brigade and the 71st Pennsylvania Infanty - the California Regiment- you can't find two better regiments on both sides of the Civil War, and both are on the same Gettysburg ribbon!
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SOLD!!! This is a great badge worn by the veterans from the State of Missouri at the 1913 Gettysburg 50th Anniversary reunion. The hanger on the badge has the Missouri coat of arms . Written on the hanger is "Reunion of Civil War Veterans - MISSOURI". The drop has General Meade and General Lee. Written on the drop is "50th Anniversary - Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 - 1913". Cannons, rifles, swords, bugle, and a naval anchor surround the generals. The badge is made by the Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, N.J. The Missouri badge is one of the more difficult badges to find in this 1913 group of state badges.
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