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Ephemera; Ladder Badge

Unidentified owner, Co. H, 1st Vermont Cavalry

Ladder badge

Co. H, 1st Vermont Cavalry


Unidentified owner, Co. E, 1st Vermont Cavalry

Ladder badge

Co. E, 1st Vermont Cavalry


Samuel Jackson Dana, Co. B, 13th Vermont Infantry; wounded at Gettysburg.

Silver Veteran's Ladder Badge and wartime (1862) and post-war (1906) photographs of Dana, below, courtesy of his descendants Elizabeth Bordeaux and Dana Harrington.

Samuel Jackson Dana

Samuel Jackson Dana

Samuel Jackson Dana


John Defoe, Co. B, 12th Vermont Infantry.

G.A.R. German Silver Ladder badge.

German Silver Ladder badge


Aldan Loomis, Co. H, 2nd Vermont Infantry

G.A.R. German Silver Ladder badge.

German Silver Ladder badge


Unidentified owner, Co. I, 16th Vermont Infantry

G.A.R. German Silver Ladder badge.

German Silver Ladder badge


Unidentified owner, 1st Vermont Light Artillery Battery

G.A.R. German Silver Ladder badge.

German Silver Ladder badge