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during the peninsular and Maryland campaigns. In November, 1862, 

 he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and commanded a 

 brigade during the campaign of 1863-64. He rendered distinguished 

 services during the operations in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 and 

 also in the Appomattox campaigns in 1865. After the close of the 

 war he served as lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-ninth Infantry and 

 as colonel of the Second Infantry. In 1892 he was made brigadier 

 general and in 1897 major general. His swords were bequeathed to 

 the National Museum in 1924 by Mrs. Frank Wheaton. 



MEDICAL OFFICER'S SWORD OV/NED BY DR. N. P. MUNROE 



During this period the sword carried by officers of the medical 

 staff and officers of the Pay Department were of the same type as 

 those carried by officers of these two branches of the service during 

 the previous period. The National Museum collection includes a 

 medical officer's sword ^* carried during the Civil War by Surgeon 

 Nahum P. Munroe, of the Twentieth Maine Infantry. The scabbard 

 bears on the reverse side in script the legend, " N. P. Munroe, Sur- 

 geon, 20th Maine Regt. from Col. A. V. Johnson." This sword was 

 lent to the National Museum in 1923 by Dr. Alfred F. Hopkins. 



CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY SABERS 



During the Civil War period the sabers used by the mounted Artil- 

 lery and the Cavalry remained the same in design as were the weap- 

 ons of these types used during the war with Mexico, which have been 

 described. The National Museum collection contains a number of 

 interesting examples of each of these weapons belonging to the 

 period of the Civil AVar. These include two Artillery sabers ^^ which 

 were transferred to the National Museum from the Military Service 

 Institution in 1923. 



SABER OWNED BY BVT. BRIG. GEN. HENRY S. GANSEVOORT 



This series also includes an Artillery saber ^^ carried by Bvt. Brig. 

 Gen. Henry S. Gansevoort, United States Volunteers, when lieuten- 

 ant, Fifth United States Artillery. He was born in Albany, N. Y., 

 in 1835. On the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the 

 Seventh Eegiment, New York Militia, and served with that regiment 

 near Washington until its return north in the spring of 1861. In 

 August of that year he received a commission as second lieutenant 

 in the Fifth United States Artillery. He later participated in the 



" Length, 85.7 cm. Blade, 72 cm. long, 2 cm. wide. PI. 12, fig. 5. 

 "B Length, 94.2 cm. Blade, 80 em. long, 3.2 cm. wide. PI. 22, figs. 1, 2. 

 >» Length, 95.5 cm. Blade, 81.3 cm. long, 3.2 cm. wide. Marked " N. P. Ames, 

 Chicopee, Mass., 1864." 



