Object Record
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Object Name |
Jacket, Shell |
Catalog Number |
0985.05.00005 |
Description |
Single breasted, 7 button front, greenish-brown wool and cotton cloth (faded from gray) with black twill wool cloth collar facings and shoulder tabs (with side-facing buttons); green worsted wool cord piping, light brown cotton sheeting lining in the body and sleeves, Federal Eagle "I" buttons with no backmarks, Mobile Volunteer Corps buttons on shoulder tabs with backmark: SCOVILL MF'G CO/WATERBURY. |
Dimensions |
W-24 L-27 inches |
Owned |
John Young Gilmore |
Owner Regiment |
3rd Alabama Infantry, Co. E |
Made |
possibly as militia uniform ; likely in Alabama |
Event |
Battle of Malvern Hill |
Provenance |
The jacket shows evidence of the wound that ended Gilmore's military service. Found in the pocket of the jacket was a photograph of Gilmore wearing it. Active in a Mobile, Alabama militia unit before the war, Gilmore enlisted in the 3rd Alabama Infantry. At the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, on July 1, 1862, Gilmore was wounded in the foot, leg, and right lung, and reported as mortally wounded. He survived but was discharged from service. |
People |
Gilmore, John Young |
Search Terms |
Battle of Malvern Hill Peninsula Campaign Seven Days Battles items pierced by bullets |
Subjects |
Uniforms soldiers Wounded in war Wounds & injuries |