Badge
- Object Name:
- Badge
- Object ID:
- 2020.002.22
- Date:
- 1880
- Description:
- Ribbon badge, New Hampshire Veterans Association, Weirs, NH, 1880. Silk ribbon with red, white, and blue vertical stripes. Printed in black: "N. H. / VETERAN. / CAMP / Corp. James K. Lane. / FOURTH RE-UNION / N.H. Veterans / WEIRS LANDING, / Aug. 31, Sept. 1 & 2, / 1880.", with American flag. No pin.
- Material:
- Textile
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-5.3 W-1.6 inches
- Provenance:
- James K. Lane (1844-1864) was born in Wiscasset, ME, and resided in Piermont, NH, when he enlisted in 1862. He served as a corporal in Company G of the 11th New Hampshire Regiment. According to Leander Cogswell, in his history of the 11th Regiment, Lane was "mortally wounded" on May 12, 1864 at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse with the "colors" (N.H. state and/or U.S. flags) in his hands, and died four days later. Some of the most savage fighting of the Civil War took place at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864, in an exposed Confederate salient first called the "Mule Shoe" and later, after the massive casualties were counted, recalled as the "Bloody Angle."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Robert Macieski
- People:
- Lane, James K. (1844-1864)
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