Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1906.005.14
- Place of Origin:
- Spotsylvania County, VA
- Date:
- 1894
- Description:
- Cane. Wood, steel, and brass. Knotty wood with smooth dark bark. Just lightly ridged. A knot forms knob handle. Metal ferrule. A varnished, square paper label with clipped corners and red border below handle reads, "Wilderness / near where / Gen[.] Wadsworth / was killed". "184" near top. Brass ferrule at base: 1.02" long. Steel insert: 0.44" long. Shaft diameter near top varies from 0.78" to 0.86". Diameter at ferrule: 0.47". Black finish to top portion of ferrule. Single steel pin holding it in place. Steel insert rounded bottom end. ~9 branches on shaft smoothed and rounded. Just two to three segments of shaft with slightly different alignments.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Steel
Brass - Dimensions:
- W-1.6 L-36.8 D-1.1 inches Weight-5.6 oz
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #184: "Cane from the Wilderness near where Gen. Wadsworth was killed in the center of the hardest fighting (Sept. 5th 1894)".
The Battle of the Wilderness was fought in Virginia, May 5-7, 1864. Gen. James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864) was wounded on May 6 and died on May 8. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- Subjects:
- Canes
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