Loblolly, Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 1992 Page: 43
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deserve it, fc0. gallant and meritorious conduct
in the field, a medal of honor. Ball, Black &
Co., of your city, are now engaged in getting
up this testimonial from a successful general
to his men. The medal, which will be of
bronze, is to bear upon one side a
representation, in relief, of Sumter in ruins,
and upon the other a facsimile of the General's
autograph: while the buckle to which the medal
is to be attached will have upon it, neatly
engraved, the name of the snI t1 It
presented....
General Gillmore had 400 of -
off. A certificate embellished with facsim
of both sides of the medal, was also given
In October 1864, General Benjamin
Butler contracted with Tiffany and Company al
Ball, Black & Company of New York for a
suitable medal to be presented to the Negro
soldiers of the Army Corps for their valorous
part in the storming of the New Market Heights
and at Chaffins' Farm in September 1864. On
May 1865, he wrote to General Godfrey Weitze
then commanding the 25th Corps, and forward
forty-six medals for distr
letter, he stated as follow-,
Please seek out the L1 a
distribute them freely, as I would have donF.
They will be the only rewards the colored&
soldiers will get. They are not even allowed
to march in review in the grand army triumph,
and they ought not if they had been defeated as
many times as the imbecility of its generals
had led the Army of the Potomac to disaste,
You will also confer a favor if you will P1.
the recipients know that these medals came fry
me, as I promised to that simple and guilele:
people.
The General had 200 medals struck off a
distributed. In 1892, General Butler, in h:
autobiography wrote as follows:
I had a medal struck of like size, weight
quality, fabrication, and intrinsic value wit.-
those which Queen Victoria gave with her ov
hand to he'. i1c~~ f. r ri , t" r ,..r~
t_'h o r'/?
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