Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Pants |
Catalog Number |
0985.09.00031a |
Description |
Trousers: royal blue wool kersey, inner facings and pockets are light brown cotton drill, japanned tin buttons, label: "CAMPBELL & CO." Damage to front left thigh portion of fabric. |
Owned |
William Dorsey Pender |
Made |
probably S. Isaacs and Campbell |
Event |
Battle of Gettysburg |
Provenance |
William Dorsey Pender wore these pants when he was wounded on the second day of the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The pants were probably made for a firm related to S. Isaacs and Campbell, London, and imported for the use of Confederate enlisted men. The cut in the left thigh of the trousers was made by the surgeon in order to examine the wound. |
People |
Pender, William Dorsey, Sr. |
Search Terms |
Battle of Gettysburg items pierced by bullets |
Subjects |
Uniforms Wounded in war Wounds & injuries |