WWIMedalMan Posted April 7, 2013 Share #1 Posted April 7, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 9, 2013 Share #2 Posted April 9, 2013 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWIMedalMan Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share #3 Posted April 9, 2013 Yes, I think so. I am still doing research... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X_redcatcher Posted April 9, 2013 Share #4 Posted April 9, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 10, 2013 Share #5 Posted April 10, 2013 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWIMedalMan Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share #6 Posted May 26, 2013 It turns out that this is actually a German-made key tag from the 1880s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanike Posted February 5, 2016 Share #7 Posted February 5, 2016 Do you still have this piece and would it be for sale ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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