CIVIL WAR MEDALS & BADGES

 

    This page includes pro-Union and Confederate medals and badges, along with hopeful candidate and patriotic medals and badges of the period. 

    Dogtags were carried by soldiers during the Civil War as a means of identification.  The reverse of dogtags (1861-11) were generally engraved with the name of a Union soldier and perhaps a list of his battles.  The reverse of this particular example is blank.

    Click on thumbnail image to see full size image below.  Go to Homepage to find additional information about political badges and medals.  Go to Images Index Page to find additional pages of political badge and medal photos, including the 1860 & 1864 campaigns.

 

1857-1 Aaron White Anti-Inflation medal (brass; 36 mm). Rare

This medalet was issued in 1858 by Aaron White, a Connecticut lawyer, to publicize his belief that the United States government was going bankrupt because of what he saw as an extreme reliance upon paper currency. This token is worded in four languages.

1859 John Brown medal (scarce)

1860 Abraham Lincoln locket (also includes two Jeff Davis photos). Scarce

1859-1 John Brown (white metal; 32 mm)

1859-2 Anti-Slavery (white metal; 28 mm)

1861-3 National Union League (silver; 36 mm)

1861-5 Anti-Confederate (copper; 35 mm). Scarce

1861-11 Civil War dogtag (brass; 31 mm)

1861-13 Anti-Jefferson Davis (silvered brass; 25 mm)

1861-16 Jefferson Davis (ferrotype; 25 mm). Scarce

1862-3 Union League (silver; 34 mm)

1864 William Sherman (hopeful candidate) (brass)

1864 William Sherman (hopeful candidate) (copper)

1864-8(A) George McClellan (white metal; 34 mm)

1864-22(E) Abraham Lincoln (white metal; 28 mm)

1876 Abraham Lincoln (Centennial medal)

Stonewall Jackson 1863 medal

1865 Abraham Lincoln memorial medal (silver)

Union Generals Grant and Sherman