CARVED POWDER HORN ID’D TO CAMP FORD PRISONER - 77TH ILLINOIS

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Item Code: M23008

This powder horn is in very nice condition and is ID’D to Private Frederick Gutting of Company E, 77th Illinois Infantry.

Overall the horn meas. approx. 16.00 inches long with a very pronounced “S” curve. The pointed end is carved into a round spout with a lower ring carved into a cog shape. The opposite wide end is plugged with a piece of wood carved into a wonderful rosette. The concentric rings are well done and are very graceful in appearance.

The carved lettering begins just below the cog shaped ring and runs horizontally around the horn at right angles to the ring. What we find here are seven long, slightly curved pear shaped leaves. Of the seven two are blank and decorated with a thin linear design. Each of the others holds the name of a battle participated in by Private Gutting. The battles listed are:

“JACKSON MIS. JUL. 14 63”

“VICKSBURG MIS. M. 22, 63”

“BLACK RIVER MAY 17 63”

“CHAMPION HILL MAY 16 1863”

“PORT GIBSON MAY 1TH, 1863”

 

Next comes a swallow-tailed riband carved around the horn starting just below the list of battles and running down to the base. In all, the riband makes three laps around the body of the horn. Carved at center of the riband is “F. GUTTING CO.E 77 ILL. VOL. FEDERAL PRISONER CAMP FORD TYLER TEXAS CAPTURED AT MANSFIELD LA. APR. 8TH 1864.” Throughout the carving the letters are surrounded with a crosshatched design. The carving can be viewed with the naked eye but to be read requires a good light. There is no doubt that Private Gutting spent many an hour on this horn perfecting the design and enhancing it. It surely must have been one of his prized possessions.

Frederick Gutting was born May 13, 1838 in Union, New Jersey where he remained until moving to Illinois in 1860. He enlisted as a Private in Company E, 77th Illinois Infantry on August 15, 1862. The regiment’s first action was in December of 1862 at Chickasaw Bluffs. They then went on to see action at Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Champion’s Hill, Black River, Jackson and Vicksburg. They were the sent to Louisiana where the regiment was heavily engaged at Sabine Crossroads. During that action half of the regiment was captured including Private Gutting. He remained a prisoner at Camp Ford until being paroled in May of 1865.

After the war he returned to Illinois where he married in 1866. He and his wife Matilda had two sons. Also in 1866 Mr. Gutting moved to Iowa where he changed his name to Gooding and worked as a farmer. He was an active member of the GAR and died in Harlan, Iowa on November 2, 1914.

With the item is a copy of Mr. Gutting’s military records, a magazine article on Camp Ford and a pamphlet on the prison.

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