medal / pin

[skippy]

I have a medal / pin. I doubt that the ribbon is original. I could not find this type anyware.



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[Borderruffian]

The Company was at 617 North 4th Street in St Louis in the late 19th Century and in the early 20th century. It was managed by Edward Todd. It sold mainly to street vendors and variety stores.

 

[skippy]

Thank you for your info Borderruffian

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[Bob Owen]

There were many medals and pins manufacture during this period to support the many civil war reunions going on around the country. It is for someone on staff of the GAR at some reunion and the ribbon could actually be original as I have found serveral in that condition that were simply stored away in drawers and jewelry boxes.

 

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[RebelCause]

Can anyone tell me what the above medal is and when it was given? Wm Lightbourne was English and returned there after the Civil War. He carried a Laissez Passer, a document rather like a passport requiring to be treated as a British citizen. He was an assist. surgeon during the CW for the confederates.

 

[AndyHall]

Can anyone tell me what the above medal is and when it was given? Wm Lightbourne was English and returned there after the Civil War. He carried a Laissez Passer, a document rather like a passport requiring to be treated as a British citizen. He was an assist. surgeon during the CW for the confederates.

It is a grave marker patterned after the Southern Cross of Honor. The award was originally created during the war to be a counterpart to the U.S. Medal of Honor. Very few of those were given out during the war.

The award was reactiviated in the 1890s by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to be awarded to any former Confederate who provided "loyal, honorable service to the South." The men at center and right in this picture are each wearing one of those postwar medals.

The photo you've attached is a similar designation, a cast-iron cross placed on Confederate veteran's graves by SCV camps or by family members. These can be obtained through the SCV or other heritage organization. The example you provide is an altered photo of this example in a cemetery at Natchez, Mississippi:

 

[RebelCause]

It is a grave marker patterned after the Southern Cross of Honor. The award was originally created during the war to be a counterpart to the U.S. Medal of Honor. Very few of those were given out during the war.

The award was reactiviated in the 1890s by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to be awarded to any former Confederate who provided "loyal, honorable service to the South." The men at center and right in this picture are each wearing one of those postwar medals.

The photo you've attached is a similar designation, a cast-iron cross placed on Confederate veteran's graves by SCV camps or by family members. These can be obtained through the SCV or other heritage organization. The example you provide is an altered photo of this example in a cemetery at Natchez, Mississippi:

Thank you for all the info. This all ties in. After spending 10 years in the UK Wm Lightbourne emigrated to Hawera, New Zealand where he became the local doctor. The local historian said that he was approached by a heritage society who offered to tend his grave. Unfortunately they don't seem to have any photos of Dr lightbourne.