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Civil War Soldier-Made ID Tag - 165th Ohio Infantry (John Eichenlaub)


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Have any of you ever seen a Civil War soldier-made ID tag like this? I picked this up today for a great price at a coin show in Kansas City.

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Is this one of those Tags privatetly made up in the late war period by soldiers, mostly Infantrymen as means to Identify them if they were Killed??

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Thats right, the soldiers had them done, and had to pay for them at what was called "suttlers" Some would have names, units, places of there home, there was no "right" or " offical" rules about them. There were even paper ones that came out in the end of the war.

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Thats right, the soldiers had them done, and had to pay for them at what was called "suttlers" Some would have names, units, places of there home, there was no "right" or " offical" rules about them. There were even paper ones that came out in the end of the war.

 

Right I read about the paper one's, just pinned inside the shirt, thinking about all of that now, it's amazining that any fallen soldiers on both sides of the atlantic were ided at all, or at least to the extent they were in the 18th and 19th century.

 

Here's question to ponder, where did they bury all the British and German soldiers and for that matter the Continentals and Militia and even the French who either were killed in battles or died of other causes in the War of Independence?

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WWIMedalMan

It turns out that this is actually a German-made key tag from the 1880s.

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