Button, Military
- Object Name:
- Button, Military
- Object ID:
- 2012.031.09.2
- Creator:
- Horstmann Brothers Company
- Place of Origin:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date:
- 1861-1865
- Description:
- Military button, used by Lieutenant James H. Marshall in Civil War. Marine Corps convex, eagle, anchor, and 13 stars stamped shell, coat-size, brass. "HORSTMANN / PHILa" stamped on back plate. Brass wire loop shank on back.
- Material:
- Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- D-0.5 Dia-0.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of a group of weapons and accessories used in the Civil War by James Hopkins Marshall, who was born May 22, 1840, in Nashua, NH, the son of John F. and Fanny J. (Hopkins) Marshall. In 1854 Marshall moved to Milwaukee, WI, working for his uncle R. H. Pearson, where he remained until 1857 when he returned to study at the Nashua High School. In 1858 he moved to Boston to work in the crockery store of his uncle George L. Marshall. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he enlisted as a Private, Co. F, First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. After three months service and honorable discharge he enlisted as a Sergeant, Co. B, 8th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, in late 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant Major and Musician, Co. B., 1863; to Lieutenant, Co. G, 1864; and to Captain, Co. C, 1865. In 1870 Marshall became superintendent of the Cambric Mill at Webster, MA. He died of consumption on August 23, 1878, at Webster.
The collection was acquired by Charles Gilman from Zeke Liverant, antique dealer, Colchester, CT, in 1962. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Charles Gilman
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