Guest Rick Research Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 This just arrived today (from Deepest Darkest Bavaria of all unlikely places ) and if I am dredging the right channel in my silting-up memory banks...71st was a New York City volunteer unit?Focus is too soft to more than make out (at least I can't) that the Cross is for "Marksman" with a "USV" (United Staes Volunteers) bar and some sort of bow-tie date ? bar, and presumably the state emblem in center of the cross. Also odd is the SINGLE "Civil War Corps"-like device he wears on ONLY his left collar. = ?Can anybody place and date and identify this any further? Not a thing written on it, alas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 (edited) Yup, but Jeff Floyd can tell you more...see here also:http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghi...71stInfMain.htmNice photo, @ 1900-10 (pre-Federal campaign medals). Bronze badge made by Tiffany of New York City. Edited July 28, 2007 by Ulsterman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Ahhhhh! I couldn't read the bow tie or date, and it was driving me NUTS trying to wish New York's state motto out of what was visible around the seal...hard to do from "Small Arms Practice!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFloyd Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 That's the Span-Am era Fifth Corps badge on his collar (red enamel with gilt border).Paul Till's book on New York awards indicates the "18-USV-98" bars were simply to denote war service. However, other states (Pennsylvania and Massachusetts) had specific marksmanship badge designs for the Spanish-American War. I believe that the New York "USV" and "USN" bars, like the other states' badges, denoted a marksmanship qualification while in federal service for the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Ahhhh, so the ? cap badge being worn here on his collar is a VERY early version of the right shoulder patch for combat units? Was this authorized, or just a Personal Fashion Statement?My Marine great uncle Carl spent the Span-Am aboard the U.S.S. Constitution (in Boston harbor then as now) which was the closest any of my lot ever got to Cuba! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFloyd Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 I think the corps badge was tolerated, rather than authorized. It probably came down as soon as the federal and state campaign medals were issued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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