Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1906.005.05
- Place of Origin:
- Chancellorsville, VA
- Date:
- 1863-1894
- Description:
- Cane. Medium brown wood with a large knot forming the knob. Small brass ferrule. Metal tip: 0.94" long. Tapered brass with short steel, straight-sided tip. Ferrule held in place with pin. Wood diameter at tip: 0.33". Wood diameter half-way up 0.5". Wood diameter just below knob: 0.7". ~13 branch stubs in sides of shaft. Whole shaft bent. Many small, longitudinal striations in shaft possibly from wood or thin bark. Label varnished over just below the knob, in script: - "185[ ] Chanc[ellorville] behind P---guns--- where G---was killed." Difficult to verify label contents.
- Material:
- Wood
Magnolia
Metal
Steel
Brass - Dimensions:
- W-1.3 L-35.2 D-1 inches Weight-3.35 oz
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #185: "Magnolia Cane cut from position of Pleasanton's guns at Chancellorsville, Va. In front of this was Gen. Hiram G. Berry killed and Maj. Peter Keenan's charge to hold this position for placing these guns. Not far in front was Stonewall Jackson killed."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- Subjects:
- Canes
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