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THB[CIVIL WAR] (10) Confederate Veterans' Buttons & Badges
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LiveNov 22, 2025
This exclusive catalog presents a select offering from the personal collection of Alejandro "Alex" de Quesada Jr., renowned historian, author, and collector. The catalog features exceptionally rare swords, historically significant belt buckles and military insignia, original Civil War flags, and a wide range of ephemera representing pivotal moments in military history. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com
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An excellent collection of Confederate veteran relics and reunion badges, including cufflinks crafted from Confederate buttons and an identified Southern Cross of Honor. Items include:
1. Cufflink featuring Confederate Infantry "I" convex 1-piece cast brass button (Albert CS 184; 24mm) and Mississippi Infantry 2-piece cuff button (Albert MS 8 Av.; 15mm). Linked by s-hook through original loop shanks.
An excellent veteran's cufflink formed by a Confederate Infantry button and a Confederate local Mississippi Infantry button, both with blank reverses.
2. Cufflink featuring Confederate "I" low convex 1-piece cast brass button (similar to Albert CS 185A with broad Roman "I"; 23mm) and Virginia staff cuff button. Waterbury, Connecticut: Scovill Mf'g. Co. Maker's mark to reverse. (Albert VA 20Av4; 14mm). Linked by s-hook through original loop shanks.
3. Two (2) United Sons of Confederate Veterans 2-piece brass buttons. N.p.: Goodwins, 1890s?. Original loop shanks. Maker's mark to reverse. Each 23mm. Not in Albert, similar to Albert CS 231.
This particular example, though not in Albert, is similar to the device in CS 231 with a Confederate flag encircled by "U C V S", though this example is on a lined field. Backmark reads "Goodwins Pat. July 27 1875". Probably an example from the early period of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, instituted at Richmond on 1 July 1896.
4. Southern Cross of Honor. 2-piece bronze badge. Upper pin bar engraved "Fontain W. Mahoud II." Overall 1 5/16 x 2 in.
Suspended cross pattée obverse features the Confederate battle flag and wreath with the legend: "United / Daughters / Confederacy / To The U.C.V." Reverse reads: "Southern Cross of Honor / Deo Vindice 1861 1865".
Fontaine W. Mahoud (1837-1881) of Lynchburg, Virginia, served the entirety of the war, initially enlisting into Company G of the 24th Virginia Infantry. Achieving the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, he fought at 1st Manassas, Williamsburg, and Seven Pines. After he was dropped when the regiment reorganized, he quickly joined Company A of the 13th Light Artillery Battalion as a Corporal. The regiment was heavily involved during the Siege of Petersburg, including the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Crater. At the open of the Appomattox Campaign, it abandoned its heavy artillery and fought as infantry until most of the regiment was captured by Sheridan's cavalry the day before Lee's surrender. He is recorded as taking the Oath of Allegiance in Charleston, West Virginia on 12 June 1864.
After the war, he moved to Washington, D.C., and worked as a lawyer. This badge was issued to his son, Fontaine W. Mahoud II (1872-1911), who worked as a clerk for the Southern Railroad.
5. Reunion United Sons Confederate Veterans. Two-piece enameled cast metal badge. N.p., 1908. Original and later pins and hooks to verso. Overall 1 12/16 x 3 7/8 in.
Suspension badge features enameled with the Second Confederate National Flag, the so-called "Stainless Banner," alongside portraits of Edmund Pettus and John Hunt Morgan with legend: "June, 9 10 11 / 1908 / Birmingham". Suspended badge features the CSS Alabama, famously commanded by Raphael Semmes and the legend "Reunion United Sons Confederate Veterans.
A badge for the 1908 United Sons of Confederate Veterans reunion held in Birmingham, Alabama. It features the most famous vessel in the Confederate Navy, named for the state. The badge also features the portrait of prominent Alabamian Edmund Pettus (1821-1907), who had represented the state in the United States Senate (1897-1907), commanded Confederate Infantry in the western Theater, and was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
6. U.S.C.V. 14th Reunion. 2-piece enameled bronze badge. Newark, New Jersey: Whitehead & Hoag, 1909. Original pin and hook to reverse. Maker's mark stamped to reverse. Overall 1 13/16 x 2 7/8 in.
Suspension bar reads "Delegate / 1909" superimposed against a panoply of arms. The medal features a portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest superimposed against an enameled Confederate flag and surrounded by a wreath and the legend "U.S.C.V. / 14th Reunion / Memphis / June, 8, 9, 10, 09".
7. 34th U.C.V. Reunion. Two-piece enameled bronze badge. Newark, New Jersey: Whitehead & Hoag, 1924. Original pin and hook to reverse. Maker's mark stamped to reverse.Overall 1 9/16 x 2 5/8 in.
Suspension badge shows the Memphis and Shelby County Auditorium (Memphis Ellis Auditorium), with the legend "Memphis, Tenn." and "Lee Highway" commemorating the auto trail opened in 1923. The lower medal bears a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument above an enameled Confederate flag with the legend "34th Reunion / U.C.V. / Memphis, 1924".
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Relics, Militaria] [Medals, Corps Badges, Badges, Ribbons] [Relics, Militaria, Accouterment, Equipment, Uniforms]
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