User:Millssteveh/Dog tag
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During the American Civil War from 1861–1865, some soldiers pinned paper notes with their name and home address to the backs of their coats. Other soldiers stenciled identification on their knapsacks or scratched it in the soft lead backing of their army belt buckles.
Manufacturers of identification badges recognized a market and began advertising in periodicals. Their pins were usually shaped to suggest a branch of service, and engraved with the soldier's name and unit. Machine-stamped tags were also made of brass or lead with a hole and usually had (on one side) an eagle or shield, and such phrases as "War for the Union" or "Liberty, Union, and Equality". The other side had the soldier's name and unit, and sometimes a list of battles in which he had participated. Below is an image of First Sergeant Henry Correll of the 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry. To learn more on Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Correll, please see the reference.[1]
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https://www.vermontcivilwar.org/get.php?input=1445 Article on Vermont in the Civil War, with specific reference to First Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Henry Correll of the 2nd Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and an image of his identification tag.
- ^ "Vermont Civil War, Lest We Forget". www.vermontcivilwar.org. Retrieved 2022-10-17.