Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Button |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.01505a-m |
Description |
13 buttons attached to card with typed history. 9 Two-piece U.S. General Staff buttons with backmarks "HORSTMANN BROTHERS & CO / PHIL"; 4 cuff size U.S. General Staff buttons with backmarks "SUPERIOR QUALITY". |
Material |
Metal/Brass |
Owned |
Joseph E. Johnston |
Made |
Horstmann Brothers and Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Provenance |
"Buttons cut from the United States uniform of General Joseph E. Johnston when he resigned and joined the Confederate forces." |
People |
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Lee, Anne Mason |