Reference--the photos in the OP
CS GEN LLOYD TILGHMAN'S SWORD BELT & SWORD HE WAS WEARING WHEN HE WAS KILLED From direct family descent with affidavit attesting that the following described sword & sword belt were his when he was killed at the battle of Champion Hill on May 16, 1863. Gen Tilghman was a gallant soldier; he graduated from West Point in 1836, & saw American service in the Mexican war. He was in charge of the Ky State Guard at the beginning of the Civil War & his first CS command was with the 3rd Ky Infy. He was promoted Brig Gen Oct 18, 1861, & over saw the construction of Fort Henry & Fort Donelson. He was captured after the fall of Fort Henry & sent to prison at Fort Warren.
After being exchanged he assumed command of a Bgde at the Vicksburg campaign, where at the battle of Champions Hill he was killed when struck in the chest by a fragment of a cannon ball.
After Gen Tilghman's death, Gen Grant signed & forwarded across enemy lines to Gen Tilghman's Adjt an order authorizing the personal effects of Gen Tilghman to travel safely through enemy lines to his family in Mass (including the sword & flag of Gen Tilghman). This original order, along with Gen Tilghman's presentation sword, is on display in the Civil War Museum in Bardstown, KY.
We can only speculate why a foot officer's sword with a presentation from Tilghman is found in his Cav scabbard. It would be interesting to research who "WJM" was, who Tilghman originally gave this sword & why he did not retain it.
Gen Tilghman after being incarcerated in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, for about six months was exchanged, together with Gen S. B. Buckner of Ky, in the summer of 1862 & placed in command at Jackson of 10,000 exchanged Confederates. These had to be reorganized into Co's, Regts & Bgdes of Infy, Cav & Arty, clothed, armed & equipped anew. Most of these troops had been captured at Island #10 & at Fort Donelson.
This was a most arduous & perplexing undertaking in view of the extreme difficulty of obtaining from the then already impoverished CSA Gov't supplies & stores from QM, Commissary or Ord. Depts. All this required more than ordinary executive ability on the part of the Cdr, which Gen Tilghman happily possessed in a marked degree, & which was doubtless due to his early military training at West Point. He accomplished this work in a most satisfactory manner in less than three months. In the spring of 1863 when Pemberton's army was driven by Grant within the fortifications of Vicksburg, the rear guard of the Army was commanded by Gen Tilghman.
Gen Tilghman married in Portland, Maine, 8/1/43, Augusta M. Boyd. Of their five sons & three daughters there are now living (Jan 1907) but two sons, Frederick Boyd & Sidell Tilghman of New York City, both members of NY stock exchange. The oldest son-Lloyd Tilghman, Jr 17-was killed near Selma, Ala Aug 1863 by a fall from his horse
He was a strikingly handsome man of slight build but erect in stature, 6 feet tall, with a wealth of wavy dark auburn hair which fell to his shoulders, & deep set dark bright eyes; always faultless in dress, he possessed a dignified presence which commanded the respect of every one with whom he was brought in contact,—but withal a most attractive personality, yet ever imbued with the tenderest emotions. He exemplified that high type of manhood described by Bayard Taylor in his song of the Camp, "The bravest are the tenderest, & the loving are the daring."
His sons have honored their father's memory by a handsome bronze statue of him of heroic size, in full dress military uniform, which surmounts a CS monument in the City of Paducah. They have also marked the spot where he was killed near Edward's Station, Hinds County, Ms, by a huge granite boulder upon which is placed a bronze tablet with the following inscription:
Lloyd Tilghman
Brig Gen C. S. A.
Cdg 1st Bgde
Loring's Div
Killed here the afternoon of 5/16/63, near
the close of the Battle of Champion's Hill
Children of Gen Lloyd & Augusta M. (Boyd) Tilghman:
1—Ellen Lee (Tilghman) b. June 17, 1844, d. Sept 11, 1845
2—Lloyd (Tilghman) b. Sept. 14, 1845, killed in the CS army, Aug 6, 1863.
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3—Frederick Boyd (Tilghman) b. Dec. 28, 1847, resides in New York city, where he is a member of the Stock Exchange, Manhattan, Lotes, New York & Garden City Golf Clubs, m. Dec. 3, 1878, Edith Belden Miller, daughter of Sylvester J. Miller of Cleveland, Ohio. They have Edith Barney Tilghman, b. Sept. 9, 1879.
4—Sidell Boyd (Tilghman) 'b. Phil- Pa., July 4, 1849, & was Philadelphia July 4,1849, & was eleven years chairman of the Committee on Securities of the New York Stock Exchange, m. April 15, 1880, Mary De Rose. No children.
5—Augusta Boyd (Tilghman) b. Aug. 2'6, 1850, d. Sept. 10, 1852. d. Sept. 10, 1852.
6—Horatio Southgate Boyd (Tilghman) b. Oct. 28, 1851, d. May 6, 1875.
7---Charles Boyd (Tilghman) b. March 17, 1859, d. May same year.
8—Maud Boyd (Tilghman) b. Sept. 17, 1860, d. January, 1892, m. 1889, Eric P. Swenson, & had Swante Magnus Swenson.
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