Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Cup |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.00440 |
Description |
Tin cup with wide mouth tapering to flat bottom; small, flat handle riveted and soldered to side. |
Material |
Metal/Tin |
Dimensions |
H-2.25 W-5 D-4 Dia-4 inches |
Owned |
unidentified Union soldier ; Theodore C. Howard |
Owner Regiment |
Parker's Battery, Virginia Light Artillery |
Event |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
Provenance |
Corporal T. C. Howard took this tin cup off the dead body of a Union soldier during the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863. Howard was a member of Parker's Battery in Alexander's Battalion of Artillery. |
People |
unidentified Union soldier Howard, Theodore Clay |
Search Terms |
Battle of Chancellorsville found on battlefield items taken items captured by Confederate soldiers items captured from Union soldiers items taken by Confederate soldiers items taken from Union soldiers United States Army |
Subjects |
Tin cups Tinsmithing Food Drinking Camp cookery Camp life Dead persons Casualties, War War casualties |