Taylor’s Battery Identification Badge

[Marktk36thIL]

After some debate, I’m confident to say this is an elaborate (and expensive) wartime private purchase ID badge from an unknown jeweler. 

 

Charles F. Jackson

He was a residence Chicago, IL.

Enlisted on 7/16/1861 as a private and mustered into "Battery B" Co. Illinois 1st Light Artillery.

He was Mustered Out on 7/23/1864 at Springfield, IL. He would see fighting from Grant's earliest campaigns through Atlanta.

He was a member of GAR Post # 5 (George H. Thomas) in Chicago, IL. He would pass away 4/27/1919.

[iron bender]

Beautiful badge. How's the 15th Corps badge and crossed cannons attached? Also, directly below the B Battery letter, it looks like something else may have hung from the badge. Maybe a ribbon behind the badge? Or simply decorative? Congratulations on a great find!

[iron bender]

Next time I'm at Vicksburg I'll get some good pics of Battery B monument and their position markers

[Marktk36thIL]

8 hours ago, iron bender said:

Beautiful badge. How's the 15th Corps badge and crossed cannons attached? Also, directly below the B Battery letter, it looks like something else may have hung from the badge. Maybe a ribbon behind the badge? Or simply decorative? Congratulations on a great find!

 

I can’t say for certain. If it was silk, then it definitely would have fallen apart by now. I’ve not seen another like it, so another reason why I think it was wartime, usually there’s always a couple post-war badges floating around. The lettering from the left, top, and right says, “ ILL - Light- Arty. The 40 Rounds and cannon barrels are soldered on.