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Metadata
Object Name |
Button |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.01536a-c |
Description |
Three (3) brass Confederate General Staff buttons with backmark "S. Buckley & CO/ Birmingham." |
Material |
Metal/Brass |
Dimensions |
Dia-1 inches |
Owned |
R. O. Whitehead; James Ewell Brown Stuart [J. E. B. Stuart]; Fitzhugh Lee |
Made |
S. Buckley and Company, Birmingham, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom |
Event |
wounding and death of J. E. B. Stuart, 1864 |
Provenance |
These buttons are part of a set sent from New York through the blockade to General J. E. B. Stuart and Lieutenant Colonel Richard O. Whitehead by an admirer. General Stuart was killed before his buttons could be delivered and they were given to General Fitzhugh Lee by Catherine E. Whitehead. |
People |
Whitehead, Richard O. Stuart, James Ewell Brown (J. E. B.) (Jeb) Lee, Fitzhugh Whitehead, Catherine E. |
Search Terms |
J. E. B. Stuart - wounding and death, May 1864 |
Subjects |
Blockade running Blockades |