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Item Number: 63518
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Best described here by our illustrations as to condition and eye appeal, this homespun cotton, waist shirt remains in fine original and unlikely unworn condition. Constructed in the classic Civil War style utilizing the typical square cut pattern with minimal fit tailoring, this desirable old textile bears the embroidered initials E S (Eugene Sample) and retains the pinned on period ink notation: Made by Annette for her first husband Gene 154th NY a prisoner in Richmond 1864 Returned ! A product of our years of seeking out such treasures, and recently unpacked from our move from Maine to Washington state, thanks to the internet we have finally uncovered the story of Gene’s returned shirt. While we found three E S 154th NY troops, that were taken prisoner, only one, Pvt. Eugene Sample had a wife named Annette. Further and consistent with the inked notation, Eugene Sample was Annette’s first husband as she remarried two years after his death. (See: Historical Document Systems, Ancestry & Find a grave databases)
Eugene Sample and Annette A. Griswald both of Randolf, New York, were married on July 30, 1860 just over two years prior to Eugenes’s September 25, 1862 enlistment as a Private of Co. H, 154th New York Infantry. Pvt. Sample was one of 167 members of the 154th NY to be taken prisoner at the Battle of Gettysburg and would die in a Confederate prison hospital on February 6, 1864. With the preceding well established we can only surmise that per the notated Returned! the shirt was either sent to Pvt. Sample by his wife Annette and was returned for failure to deliver, or was returned to Annette after his death. Due to the condition of the shirt and the unlikely scenario that a prisoner of war’s personal items would be returned we feel the failure to deliver scenario is the most likely. Buy with confidence! We are pleased to offer a no questions asked three day inspection with return as purchased on direct sales! Just send us a courtesy e-mail to let us know your item will be returned per these provisions and your purchase price will be refunded accordingly. Thanks for visiting Gunsight Antiques!
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