Badge, Commemorative
- Object Name:
- Badge, Commemorative
- Object ID:
- 1948.003.02
- Date:
- circa 1890
- Description:
- Commemorative Badge. Gilman Marston 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. White silk ribbon with bust-length portrait of Gilman Marston with vertical black borders suspended from gilded pressed tin pin back with stars on ends. Silver cutout of a boulder surmounted by a five-pointed star attached to bottom of portrait ribbon. "1811 / GILMAN MARSTON / 1890" engraved on front of boulder. Blue silk ribbon with "2 ND. REG'T / N.H. VOL'S" stamped in gold on front; silver wire braid and fringe on bottom. Three identical blue satin badges marked "2nd Regiment, NH Vols. Gilman Marston 1811-1890".
- Material:
- Metal
Textile
Tin
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-4.5 L-7.5 inches
- Provenance:
- The donor, Edwin W. Eastman, was the son of Edwin G. Eastman, a law partner of Gilman Marston.
General Gilman Marston (1811-1890) was born in Orford, NH, and died in Exeter, NH. Besides serving in the Civil War, he was a lawyer and member of the U.S. Congress and Senate. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Edwin W. Eastman
- Subjects:
- Civil War, Fraternal organizations, Mourning, Mourning customs
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