76 BULLETIN 16 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



1864.^^ The blade is slightly curved with a rounded back and bears 

 on the obverse the United States coat of arms and trophy, and floral 

 designs; the reverse is similarly decorated with the letters "U. S." 

 and trophy and floral designs. The grip is 4-sided ; the top and bot- 

 tom are covered with brass strips; the sides are covered with ivory 

 strips, and the whole is curved sharply down at the end to form a 

 retort-shaped pommel. The quillons are formed of an S-shaped 

 strip, with a small diamond-shaped shield on each side of the blade, 

 the ends terminating in acorns. The scabbard is steel with three 

 brass mounts, two of which are circular in shape and decorated with 

 floral designs. Between these two appear the inscription " Major 

 Genl. Kilpatrick, U. S. A. 1864." This sword also was lent to the 

 National Museum by Mrs. Louisa V. Kilpatrick, in 1906. 



SWORD OWNED BY MAJ. GEN. HENRY W. LAWTON 



Another Civil War presentation sword ^^ of much interest is one 

 presented to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton, United States Army, by 

 officers and men of the Thirteenth Indiana Infantry in 1865. The 

 blade is straight with a broad central groove and a narrow upper 

 groove. The obverse is decorated in silver chasing with the United 

 States coat of arms, flanked by small floral designs; the reverse is 

 decorated in the same manner with the letters " U. S." between the 

 inscription, " For Union and Liberty." The upper part of the grip 

 is formed by a silver female figure standing erect with a bronze 

 laurel wreath in her hands, and resting against a gilt sheet of metal, 

 which envelopes her back and sides. The knuckle guard consists of 

 a circular brass strip covered with oak leaves and acorns, which 

 widens into a broad counterguard of openwork scroll design ter- 

 minating in a gorgon's head. The scabbard is gilded, and bears 

 three silvered mounts of intricate design, a tablet, and an oak-leaf 

 spray of the same type. The obverse of the upper mount is deco- 

 rated with a medieval trophy within a wreath of oak and laurel and 

 the reverse with the letters " U. S." within a similar wreath. The 

 central mount bears on the obverse within a similar wreath an 

 American eagle upon a globe, and the third mount bears also an 

 eagle and intricate floral and scroll designs. The tablet between the 

 first two mounts is inscribed in five lines: "Lieut. Col. Henry W. 

 Lawton, 30th Ind. Vet. Vol. Infty. Presented by the officers and 

 men of his regiment as a token of confidence and respect, March 4, 

 1865." The names " Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, and Chicka- 

 mauga " are engraved on the right and " Atlanta, Franklin and 



SI Length, 102 cm. Blade, 83.8 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide. Marked " Collins & Co., 

 Hartford, Conn." 



s' Length, 97 cm. Blade, 8'2 cm. long. 2.7 cm. wide. Inscribed " Schuyler, Hartley & 

 Graham, N. Y." Marked " Clauberg, Solingen." PI. 24, fig. 7. 



