All Hands: First, thanks to everyone who assisted me in my quest!!! After thinking it over I decided against an original because of I ever got one it would go on the wall almost like a shrine and I would be afraid to play, (practise?), with it at all.
So, while in Gettysburg I came upon a very nice looking reproduction of the U.S. Staff and Field officers sword at Regimental Headquarters for a couple of hundred+. I couldn't resist it so now it has a new home here at Chateau Cavalier.
Thank you all again!
John