29, 1861, and mustered into Company M two days later. ?A 30-millimeter brass dog tag belonging to James F. The reverse bears a raised, spread-winged eagle with shield on breast and inscribed above IN THE WAR OF UNION, and below, 1861, 2 & 3 & 4. 6, 1862, in Brockport, N.Y., and mustered out on June 7, 1865, in Norfolk, Va. Lorenzo Brown of Company M, 3rd New York Cavalry. ?A 30-millimeter brass patriotic identification disk for Pvt.
The reverse bears Conrad's military service with each letter of the inscriptions individually punched incuse. The tag's obverse has a portrait identified as George Washington, with SECURITY below. The unit lost 153 killed and mortally wounded. The 1st New Jersey Volunteers experienced numerous battles with Confederate troops during his tenured service. ?A 30-millimeter pewter Civil War dog tag for August Conrad (misspelled "Conard" on the tag), a member of Company E of the 1st New Jersey Volunteers. Conrad joined the regiment on May 23, 1861, and was discharged June 23, 1864. The sutlers’ primary market were Union soldiers who typically possessed the resources to purchase such ID devices.Among the other Civil War collectibles offered in Heritage's two-day sale are: Very few of these identification tags for Confederate soldiers have been found.
Using a small machine that would stamp designs into metal discs made of brass or lead, the sutlers created the first “dog tags” used by soldiers fighting on American soil. It was these sutlers who satisfied the soldiers’ desire for identification tags. Shaped to suggest a branch of the service, these pins were engraved with the soldier’s name, unit and sometimes the battles in which the soldier had participated.ĭrowne & Moore Jewelers, located in New York City, carried one of those advertisements in Harper’s Weekly: “Attention Soldiers! Every soldier should have a badge with his name marked distinctly upon it……a solid silver badge….can be fastened to any garment.”īut soldiers in the field rarely, if ever, had possession of such periodicals and, therefore, would not be aware of the availability of these identification pins.Ī common fixture near the Civil War battlefields were mobile tent stores operated by sutlers – itinerant, civilian merchants who followed the armies selling tobacco, coffee, sugar, and other goods directly to the soldiers. Not long after this exchange, various manufacturers began to advertise in periodicals items called “Soldier’s Pins”.
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