![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Reference "American Military Belt Buckle" by Michael J. You seldom see buckles with such solid graphic battlefield history as this. The buckle measures about 53 mm x 85 mm, has a very nice patina and all the bumps and scrapes one would expect. This item was purchased many years ago from Horse Soldier and came from a large Gettysburg/Antietam collection from Maryland. As stated, this is the way many buckles were displayed at one time. "Back then" the buckle had very little value other than the history so they put the loop on the face and hung it on a display board so you could read the history on the back. He suggests that someone used the loop to hang the buckle in order to display it on a wall. Clearly the hooks on the back where cut off in order to display the plate better which is unfortunate but not uncommon in the early days of collecting, The brass loop embedded in the center of the plate was a mystery to me for many years until an old time collector offered an explanation. This item is from a very old collection. The Confederate victory gave the South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped." After fighting on the defensive for most of the day, the rebels rallied and were able to break the Union right flank, sending the Federals into a chaotic retreat towards Washington. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run. Known as the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas), the engagement began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. "On July 21, 1861, Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. plate with an old tag glued on the back that reads "picked up on battlefield, first battle of Bull Run". ![]()
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