Dragoon Button – From the Coco Collection Recovered in Gettysburg

Dragoon Button – From the Coco Collection Recovered in Gettysburg / On-hold

US Dragoon Button with eagle. Recovered from the Wheatfield, D. Battery Gettysburg from the Gregory Coco Collection with handwritten documentation of location by Coco.

The late Coco was a park ranger at Gettysburg deeply interested in the battle and what was left in its wake. The Vietnam veteran wrote eloquently and often about the carnage of war, its terrors and pain, its irreplaceable cost in human life and treasure, and the toll it took on the families who lost sons and husbands there.

Button depicts a feathered neck spread-eagle facing right.  On the eagle's chest is a narrow pointed recessed shield with a raised initial "d" for Dragoon. In the eagle's talon is a long stem seven petal laurel stem.  In its left claw is a small bundle of three arrows pointing upward.  The high relief pattern is set on a high convex plain field with no edge boarder.  The Army transformed the Second Dragoons into mounted riflemen in 1842 and the unit was again reorganized into the 2nd Cavalry at the beginning of the Civil War. No backmark. Two-part convex button, coat size.  Original loop shank on reverse.

Comes housed in a 8 x 12 inch display case with red velvet backing and descriptive card.

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Inventory Number: GET 489 / On-hold