Group of Grand Army of the Republic Reunion Medals Belonging to C.B. Sweet, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

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Group of Grand Army of the Republic Reunion Medals Belonging to C.B. Sweet, 9th New York Heavy Artillery

Fine group of veteran reunion and Grand Army of the Republic medals belonging to C.B. Sweet, a veteran of the famed 9th New York Heavy Artillery. Organized in 1861, the regiment initially served in the defenses of Washington before being ordered into the brutal Overland Campaign in 1864, where it suffered devastating losses in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg operations. Like many heavy artillery regiments sent to the front late in the war, the 9th New York earned a hard-fought reputation through some of the conflict’s bloodiest combat.

Following the war, surviving veterans joined the Grand Army of the Republic, the nation’s largest Union veterans’ organization. GAR reunion medals such as these served both as commemorative keepsakes and symbols of pride, brotherhood, and continued remembrance among former soldiers. Veterans often wore them proudly at encampments, parades, memorial ceremonies, and reunions decades after the war’s end.

This grouping retains strong period character and represents the lifelong connection veterans maintained with their wartime service and comrades. An attractive and historically meaningful GAR veteran grouping tied to a regiment with distinguished and costly Civil War service.

Inventory Number: VET 404