Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1906.005.02
- Place of Origin:
- Big Bethel, VA
- Date:
- 1906
- Description:
- Cane. Light brown wood and steel. Straight, natural finish cane made from tree branch, knobby where branchlets were cut off. Rounded top, small ferrule gone and slotted steel screw-in metal tip. Short crack adjacent to where screw is. 23 small knots on side of cane. Bend in cane about one third from bottom.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- L-36.9 Dia-0.9 inches Weight-3.4 oz
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #769: "Cane cut at Big Bethel - First battlefield of the Great Rebellion. It grew about 4 ft from the grave of Maj. Theodore Winthrop - By J. C. Harmon 1906."
Major Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861) was killed at the Battle of Big Bethel, VA, June 10, 1861. He was one of the fiurst Union officers killed in the Civil War. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
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