Jackson A. Davis question

[Mike Serpa]

Private Jackson A. Davis of Co. E, Holcombe Legion South Carolina Cavalry Battalion, with musket and two pistols] / Rees. - LOC

What is this on the left?

 

[Tennessee Union Gal]

It's a pressed flower. Looks like a yellow marguerite, which is a type of daisy. In the arcane Victorian language of flowers it means "I come soon."

 

[Mike Serpa]

It's a pressed flower. Looks like a yellow marguerite, which is a type of daisy. In the arcane Victorian language of flowers it means "I come soon."

Oh, it looks like cloth to me.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Bloodstained cloth? Cut to look like a flower?

 

[Tennessee Union Gal]

Bloodstained cloth? Cut to look like a flower?

I think you're right. That's pretty cool.

 

[lupaglupa]

I think it's a floral decoration - a flower with two leaves, that has been pressed as one would have pressed a real flower. Perhaps a decoration form a party or dance worn by a young lady and given to him as a memento.