Manufactured: Chicopee, Mass.

Maker: Ames Mfg. Co.

Year: 1861

Model: 1850 S&F

Size: 32.2 in. blade

Condition: Excellent+

Engraved on the scabbard is "Presented to / Col I. H. Morrow (Isaac) / by the non-commissioned officers and privates / of the 3rd Regt. Ohio Vols. / as a toke of their esteem / Camp Elkwater, Va / Nov. 1861".  This is the highest grade of regulation M1850 Staff & Field Officer sword by Ames Mfg. Co. The guard and pommel have extra embellishment and chasing. The engraved gilt brass scabbard is top shelf with applied decoration on the mounts, A bottom serif on the drag blade and rectangular engraving: “Made by / Ames Mfg. Co. / Chicopee Mass.” plaque and double top mount carry rings. The blade is by a master etcher with 23 inches of blade etch in the finest quality of the Ames address, arms, armor, cross hatch, American Eagle, E.PU ribbon and other delicate designs.  The reverse is equally as beautiful with a U.S. In the center.

Born in 1825, Isaac H. Marrow first saw service during the Mexican War, enlisted on May 26, 1846 and serving in various battalions of the Maryland and District of Columbia Volunteers, mustering out in May 1848.

Moving ahead to his Civil War service, Marrow enlisted at the age of 40 on 4/24/61 as a Captain. On 4/27/61 he was promoted to Colonel and commissioned into Co. A, 3^rd Ohio Infantry. Mustered out and re-enlisted on 6/12/61 and again assigned as Colonel of the 3^rd Ohio, as the unit was initially a 3 month regiment.  Resigned on 3/8/62 due to disability, and on that date was commissioned as a Captain, US Volunteers Aide-De-Camp, serving on the staffs of Gen. McClellan and Gen. Hunter. He again is forced to resign due to ill health on 5/9/63. There is some indication in his records that he expressed an interest in February 1863 in serving as an Aide-de-Camp in the Department of the South, but there is nothing further to show that actually occurred.

Marrow died May 13, 1912 and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery Columbus, OH. His widow Elizabeth (his 2^nd wife) applied for and received a Mexican War pension; records show she inquired about receiving a Civil War pension but was told that her husband’s service did not qualify her to do so. Elizabeth died in Chicago in 1936.

Accompanied by military & pension records from the National Archives.  [ld]

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