Joseph H. Sherrard, Blacksmith, Artifact Board

Joseph H. Sherrard, Blacksmith, Artifact Board - Inventory Number: IDE 290

Partner of the Famed - Tucker, Sherrard & Co., Confederate Gunworks

Iron bowie knife "D" guard relic handle found in a creek bed adjacent to the Civil War site of the Tucker, Sherrard & Co., Confederate gunworks. Following the Battle of Pea Ridge, March 5th-8th, 1862, there was much talk among the Union soldiers that Confederate Cherokee and Choctaw Indians had reportedly scalped Illinois soldiers, as well as of the Texans, who were said to have smashed heads of wounded Union soldiers with their bowie knives. The "Lancaster Guards" were there at the Battle of Pea Ridge fighting under their leader General James McIntosh.

Is it possible a bowie knife such as this was used in such manner?

Before Joseph H. Sherrard became a principal in the Tucker, Sherrard Co., manufacturers of a Colt Dragoon type revolver, he was a Lancaster, Texas blacksmith. And when the "Lancaster Guards" (later Company F 6th Texas Cavalry, Ross's Texas Brigade) marched off to the Civil war in Sherrard made Bowie Knife. August 1861, each departing Confederate soldier was presented a J. H. Long.

Each knife had a "steel blade, 16 inches 2 inches wide and about 3/16 inch thick on the back, a wood riveted and the point two edged inches. handle, with an iron guard' into a tin mounted scabbard". for about three. This fitting this bowie knife may have looked very much like the display attached to this board.

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Inventory Number: IDE 290