CivilWarTalk Throwback Thursday, 9-1-16

James N.

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Another shot taken by Justice of the Peace Seward after marrying us atop Kennesaw Mountain, Aug. 27, 1968 - the last time I visit this subject, promise! This view isn't as good as the first one, but it shows a little more of Sherman Terrace and the descriptive NPS signage that explained the surrounding topography. (Besides, this way I get to stretch it out to cover another Throwback Thursday, too.) The picture below is a postcard I bought later in the park visitor center; for some reason this sign disappeared in intervening years and last time I visited in 2013 there was nothing there. Following the very brief ceremony, such as it was, we returned Judge Seward to his home but revisited Kennesaw a day or two later to follow the usual park driving tour before heading to Chattanooga's Lookout Mountain.

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Thanks for sharing James N. I still can't get over the Yankee box plate around your neck, although it looks like a breast plate to me. Anyway, how did you make it into a necklace? Did you bore a hole into it?
 
Thanks for sharing James N. I still can't get over the Yankee box plate around your neck, although it looks like a breast plate to me. Anyway, how did you make it into a necklace? Did you bore a hole into it?

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Is IS a breast plate, one for a cartridge box sling and not an NCO's baldrick. (The same lead-filled brass plate but with prongs on the back like for a regular belt plate.) This is the very one, seen above on the sling of my original cartridge box; fortunately no mutilation was necessary - I just passed a ribbon through the loops on the back. Note on this original that likely its first owner scratched his initials into the lead backing: J L S.

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For more on regulation plates: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/regulation-union-belt-and-cartridge-box-plates.81279/
 

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