Civil War Original Period Items

IDENTIFIED OFFICER'S LEATHER & BRASS MARTINGALE 4th. VIRGINIA REGIMENT, 1861/65

IDENTIFIED OFFICER'S LEATHER & BRASS MARTINGALE 4th. VIRGINIA REGIMENT, 1861/65
IDENTIFIED OFFICER'S LEATHER & BRASS MARTINGALE 4th. VIRGINIA REGIMENT, 1861/65

IDENTIFIED OFFICER'S LEATHER & BRASS MARTINGALE 4th. VIRGINIA REGIMENT, 1861/65
IDENTIFIED OFFICER'S LEATHER & BRASS MARTINGALE 4th. This Confederate leather & brass martingale was used by Lieutenant Amos Barton when he served in Company E of the 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Stonewall Brigade. Company E was was from Montgomery County in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia & he was from McDonald's Mill. It is a 4 1/4" x 4 1/16" black harness leather martingale with a 1 3/8" x 1 1/2" brass heart in the middle & surrounded by nine 7/16 brass roundels. It is in good & well used condition with the leather firm & hard & has a small V shaped damage on the top middle & has a dark bronze patina on the brass heart & brass roundels. It was found with a pair of Enfield bayonets on the wall in the tack room of the old Barn on the Barton farm in 1960..

They were on display in the county museum during the Civil War Centennial of 1961 to 1965. I bought it from the Barton family.

It come with a certificate of authenticity & a Barton family letter & historical research. See his flat brass trimmed powder horn listed separately.


IDENTIFIED OFFICER'S LEATHER & BRASS MARTINGALE 4th. VIRGINIA REGIMENT, 1861/65