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CIVIL WAR INSCRIBED PRESENTATION GRADE CAVALRY OF

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CIVIL WAR INSCRIBED PRESENTATION GRADE CAVALRY OF
CIVIL WAR INSCRIBED PRESENTATION GRADE CAVALRY OFFICERS SABER 9TH ILLINOIS MOUNTED INFANTRY. The sword is a fancy grade Solingen manufactured Civil War cavalry officer’s saber roughly conforming to the Model 1860, except the three branch guard is heavily cast with floral decorations and flourishes. The pommel cap is engraved and the grip is of silver with triple gilt wire wrap. The 33” curved single edged blade is marked “Clauberg/Solingen” on the ricasso and has etched decoration across 50% of its surface. The scabbard is silver-plated with fancy cast oak leaf mounts and a throat with a rococo drop. Between the two top mounts of the scabbard is the following inscription: Presented to/Capt. Frantz H. Wagner/By the Members of Co. D/9th Ill. Mtd. Infty. Vol. Louisville, Ky./June 28th 1865. This sword, given by his men, was presented to Wagner just 12 days prior to his company being officially mustered out of service in Louisville. The unit has a fascinating history. On the 26th day of April 1861, the Ninth Illinois Infantry Volunteers was mustered into the service as Springfield for the term of three months. The regiment was ordered to Cairo, IL where it was stationed doing garrison duty until the close of the term of service July 26th, 1861 when it mustered out. At the expiration of the term of service of the regiment herein named there was no force to take their place as a garrison at Cairo, IL. This difficulty was overcome by volunteer response from the officers and men of the disbanded regiments. Some two hundred and fifty of this volunteer garrison was composed of the Ninth Infantry, who proposed to re-enlist. In this way the enlistment for the three years' service began with the Ninth. On this mere skeleton of a regiment of officers and men recruiting began in earnest, and in less that thirty days, it was again a full regiment. The New 9th Infantry was organized at Cairo with Capt. Wagner’s Company D St. Clair County. On the night of September 5th, 1861, General Grant moved with the Ninth and Twelfth Infantry from Cairo to Paducah, KY where it was stationed until early in February 1862. On the 5th of February 1862, they attacked Fort Heiman, opposite Fort Henry, whilst the gunboats of and First Division attacked the latter place. On February 22nd the regiment moved up the Cumberland to Fort Sevier, near Clarksville, and on the 27th marched to Nashville; thence from Nashville, March 1st to Clarksville, and March 6th, embarked for Pittsburgh Landing as a part of the Army of the Tennessee. The regiment was at Shiloh, and was detached and ordered to the left of General Hurlbut to fill the gap between the Brigade of Colonel Stuart and the left of General Hurlbut. On this part of the line a regiment was engaged until driven back about two o'clock by the enemy, being unable to flank them because of the wide gap to the left. After procuring a new supply of ammunition, the regiment was again engaged until night on the first day of the battle. The regiment went into the field with 578 present for duty, and sustained a loss of sixty-one killed, three hundred wounded and five prisoners. Of those prisoners, three were wounded, thus showing a loss of killed and wounded unparalleled by the history of any regiment during the war, which sufficiently attests its gallantry. The regiment took part in the second battle of Corinth, October 3rd and 4th, 1862. On the 15th of March, 1863, General G.M. Dodge, commanding the left wing Sixteenth Army Corps, which comprised the army then stationed at Corinth, ordered the Ninth to be mounted. From that time until the expiration of its term of service, it remained so. From May 26th to May 31st, 1863, the regiment was engaged as part of the cavalry force on a raid from Corinth to Florence, Alabama, for the purpose of destroying certain factories there. From the 8th of July to the 15th the regiment was on a continuous scout in west Tennessee. On the 12th of August they made a raid to Grenade where they destroyed 60 locomotives, 450 cars, and a large supply of Confederate stores. Early in May 1864, the regiment was ordered to take the wagon and ambulance trains of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Army Corps from Huntsville, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee. When this was accomplished the regiment was ordered to move to the front, and it led the advance of the Army of the Tennessee in the movement to flank Dalton and Buzzards' Roost, Georgia. During the Atlanta campaign the regiment was engaged in scouting on the flanks of the army, and this duty was continued until the close of the term of service of the regiment in July 1864. Whilst at Decatur, Alabama, in April 1864, about 140 of the men re-enlisted as veterans; were consolidated into a battalion consisting of seven companies. This battalion moved with the army to Savannah; thence to North Carolina, where the Confederate forces surrendered, being constantly on the flank or in advance of the army. The regiment was mustered out July 9th, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. An extremely nice and rare Civil War inscribed presentation sword from a “German” Illinois regiment of mounted infantry. CONDITION: Good. Blade has been cleaned and the etching is visible but not strong. Scabbard is in very good condition with some loss to silver-plating and oxidation in protected areas. Grip and hilt are fine. 4-54539 CoW21 (5,000-7,000)
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