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Object Name |
Belt, Money |
Catalog Number |
2016.026.00010 |
Description |
White cotton money belt with two compartments and a tin buckle. Has four white porcelain or glass buttons to close its flap. Belt is signed "D Speck" in brown ink. |
Material |
Cloth/Fabric/Cotton/Metal/Tin/Glass/Ceramic/Porcelain |
Dimensions |
W-3.5 L-32 inches |
Owned |
John C. Speck |
Owner Regiment |
39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, Co. C |
Provenance |
Money belt belonged to Private John C. Speck. A courier for General Robert E. Lee, he was also a member of Company C, 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry. A student at the beginning of the war, he enlisted on November 1, 1863, in Orange Court House, Virginia; and died of disease at Richmond hospital on June 30, 1864. |
People |
Speck, John C. |
Search Terms |
Virginia Courier |
Subjects |
Money |