Badge
- Object Name:
- Badge
- Object ID:
- 2024.043.07
- Date:
- 1877-1882
- Description:
- Badge. Grand Army of the Republic membership badge. Bronze gilt pinback of an eagle atop crossed cannons, clutching a sword, with ten cannon balls beneath. Attached to an American flag silk ribbon with a blue border, indicating that the wearer was an officer in their G.A.R. post, from which is suspended a bronze gilt five-pointed star displaying the G.A.R. emblem and text "GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC / 1861 VETERAN 1866". A Type IV badge made between 1877 and 1882. On one side of the star is serial number R11186.
- Material:
- Bronze
Silk - Dimensions:
- H-3.5 W-1.875 inches
- Provenance:
- Possibly owned by Civil War veterans Abial Chandler Abbott (1843-1898) or Amos Smitt Abbott (1837-1909). Descended in the Abbot family and found in the Abbot Homestead at 382 North State Street, Concord, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the family of Rebecca Abbott Henry Dole
- Subjects:
- Civil War, Eagle, Grand Army of the Republic
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