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Feb 21, 2017 - Feb 22, 2017
Folk art carved corps badge made from bone, 1 x 1.5 in., with the following text carved and highlighted in red and blue on the front, L. Labre / Excelsior / 5 / Brigade.
At 24-years-old, Louis Labre enlisted in the army as a private on June 6, 1861. On June 27th, he mustered into the 74th New York Infantry, Co G. He fought at the Seven Days Battle and Fair Oaks as well as at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg. Labre mustered out of his regiment on June 26, 1864 at Alexandria, VA. He died ten years later, and his wife, Sara, filed for his pension in June 1874.
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