148th Pennsylvania Ribbon “Defendam” / SOLD

148th Pennsylvania Ribbon “Defendam” - Inventory Number: GET 425 / SOLD

Wonderful red, white, and blue ribbon suspends a round planchet. The reverse reads, “At Gettysburg the 143rd P.V. stood like a band of iron amid the surging masses of the enemy / July 1, 1863 / Doubleday.” The obverse bears the figure of Sergeant Ben Crippen, a regimental color-bearer who was observed in the midst of the fighting, as the regiment was grudgingly obliged to fall back on July 1, to occasionally turn toward the enemy and shake his fist. Out of 515 in the regiment on the field, and a fighting strength certainly under that, the regiment lost 253 in killed wounded, captured, and missing. Crippen was killed in the fighting and buried in an unmarked grave, but the regiment memorialized him by using this figure on their Gettysburg monument.

Comes housed in 6 inch x 8 inch riker display case with black velvet backing and descriptive card.

Inventory Number: GET 425 / SOLD