Badge
- Object Name:
- Badge
- Object ID:
- 2013.019.64
- Date:
- 1892
- Description:
- Metal badge, Grand Army of the Republic, 1892. Shield-shaped medallion attached to ribbon with two links. "GAR / MASSACHUSETTS" on gold-golored metal bar with pin attached at back, at top. Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; right arm bent grasping sword, at top, Native American standing with bow in right hand and arrows in left hand, five-pointed star over right shoulder at center, "ENSE PETIT PLACIDAM SUB LIBERTATE QUIETEM" in banner along bottom. Reverse: DEPT. OF MASS. / GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC / ADOPTED / 1892". Seal of the Grand Army of the Republic at center; sailor, soldier, orphan, and kneeling widow in front of Lady LIberty, with flags in background; "GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC / 1861 VETERAN 1866" in circle banner around people; Worn by Civil War nurse Harriet P. Dame (1815-1900) of Concord, NH.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Provenance:
- Shortly after the 2nd Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers left to fight in the Civil War, Harriet P. Dame (1815-1900) of Concord joined the regiment as a nurse on April 1, 1861. Born in Barnstead to James C. and Phebe (Ayer) Dame, Harriet was at the Battle of Bull Run and cared for the wounded at the Emmett House. She stayed with the soldiers from the 2nd NH Regiment throughout the war, mostly in the field, and was captured by the Confederates twice. Harriet was at the Battle of Gettysburg and took care of the wounded soldiers until the last one was brought to the General Hospital. She remained with the 2nd NH Regiment until the last soldier mustered out on Christmas Day 1865. In 1867 she accepted a job at the Treasury Department in Washington and lived there until 1899. She became a fixture at annual soldiers' reunions until she died on April 24, 1900, at Concord.
This collection was purchased from the wife of a descendant of the nephew of Harriet Dame. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- People:
- Dame, Harriet P. (1815-1900)
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