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North Carolina Hillsborough Military Academy Coat Button

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Item: North Carolina Hillsborough Military Academy Coat Button
Backmark: "SCHUYLER. H. & G. / N. Y." dm
Design: Five-pointed star on a line field with prime point oriented downwards and "NC" at sides. A wreath with an inscription "HILLSBOROUGH MILITARY ACADEMY *" surrounds the central star. 
Construction: Convex, two-piece.
Approximate size: 19 mm.
Condition: Very good, excavated, shank missing. The button is loaded with gilt with an underlying brown patina. There are no pushes, cracks, breaks, or repairs.
Recovered: Unknown.
Reference: Tice: NCS270Am1 var.; Albert: SU 150
Comments: The button was acquired directly from the family of the Virginia digger and will be an excellent addition to any excavated Civil War button or general relic collection.
Additional information: According to "Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865" by Warren K. Tice, "Students attended the first classes at Hillsborough Military Academy in January 1859, and by the following year, 99 had enrolled. (28) Commanded by Charles T. Tew, a former faculty member at the Citadel and Superintendent of the Arsenal Academy in South Carolina, the school was patterned after the U.S. Military Academy. Most of the faculty and cadets joined the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the war. Charles Tew was killed in the Bloody Lane at Antietam while commanding the 2nd North Carolina Regiment. Just before the fall of Charleston, many cadets left the academy without orders to join General Beauregard. To the cadets' dismay, recruiters would not enlist them due to their impetuous breach of cadet discipline. The residual Cadet Corps was disbanded just before General Johnston's Army capitulated in 1865." 

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Product Code:

PC12526

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Price:

$425.00

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