Object Details
- Description
- Model 1851 U.S. Cavalry Sword Waist-Belt Plate.
- Union regulations called for oval "US" plates to be used on most waist belts and on cartridge boxes, and for circular eagle plates to be used on shoulder belts. Union cavalrymen, however, used a rectangular eagle plate on the waist belt that held their sword.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Louis Lipton
- associated date
- 1861-1862
- ID Number
- AF.15399
- catalog number
- 15399
- accession number
- 58300
- catalog number
- 287145
- Object Name
- insignia
- Other Terms
- insignia; Army; Belt Plate
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 5.715 cm x .635 cm
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Civil War
- Military
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_439653
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-5e6c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
