Eagle Breast Plate Recovered from Cold Harbor / SOLD

Eagle Breast Plate Recovered from Cold Harbor, Virginia  - Inventory Number: BEL 197 / SOLD

Nice example with both loops present on the reverse.    

The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought from May 31 to June 12, 1864, with the most significant fighting occurring on June 3.  It was one of the final battles of Union Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, and is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles.  Thousands of Union soldiers were killed or wounded in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified positions of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's army.

Inventory Number: BEL 197 / SOLD