Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1906.005.12
- Date:
- 1863-1894
- Description:
- Cane from site of Lee and Jackson's last camp. Made from slightly knotty cedar wood with knot forming knob handle. Metal ferrule. Varnished label below handle. Oval white paper label with red border: "Lee & Jack[sons] / Last [camp]" all in dark ink. Above all that: "182". Shaft diameter underneath knob: 0.8" to 0.7". Shaft diameter just above ferrule: 0.43". Brass ferrule length: 0.91". Steel insert at bottom 0.23" long. Ferrule appears to be crimped on with four small indentations near its top edge. ~20 branch stubs cut off and rounded on side of shaft. ~ten different segments of shaft from being curved to being straight.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- W-1.3 L-36.7 D-1.4 inches Weight-3.85 oz
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #182: "Cane from Lee and Jackson's last camp. The interview and council where Jackson proposed the attacking Hooker's right was held in Lee's tent between two pine trees and this cedar sprung up between these trees."
The last camp of Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was at Chancellorsville, VA, in 1863. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
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