US Post Civil War Participants Medal, Crimp Brooch
This item is listed for historical interest only. It was listed on our site previously but has been sold and is no longer available for purchase.
Sold for: $50.00

Original period manufacture. A nice quality strike, with it's original ribbon, not current production.  As this medal was not authorized until 1905, less than 10,000 of the nearly 2,000,000 Union soldiers who served during the greatest crises in our nation's history received this medal. America's "Other" Greatest Generation. Of interest, the last surviving Union soldier of the Civil War, Albert Woolson, died in 1956. The last Civil War widow, Helen Viola Jackson, died in 2020.