Sword is identified to Levin B. Day who served as a Captain in the 3^rd Delaware Infantry

The drawn sword meas. approx. 38.00 inches from point to pommel. The blade is approx. 32.00 inches long with a stopped fuller that runs approx. 20.75 inches with a 14.25 inch narrow fuller. The blade surface is bright with very small amounts of mottling. There are also several areas with rub marks and scratches. The true edge is free of any nicks. The obverse side of the blade is etched with a scroll decoration and foliate and scrollwork with a spread-winged eagle with an “E PLURIBUS UNUM” riband in its talons. The reverse ricasso is marked with the figure of a standing knight surrounded by “W. CLAUBERG SOLINGEN.” The etching on this side consists of scrollwork and foliate with a block “US.” All etching is light yet visible. Thin leather washer is present at the base of the ricasso under the guard.

The detailed brass hilt features a guard and knucklebow with a delicately cast single wide band with cutout spread-winged eagle and a cutout block “US” at center. Guard wiggles a bit. Hilt features a grooved, center-swelled wooden handle wrapped in gray sharkskin that shows light wear. Skin is tightly bound with three brass wires, one twisted and flanked by two straight. Normal seam is evident in the sharkskin on the back of the grip. Brass pommel is decorated with ornate laurel leaf wreath around the edges. Top of the pommel is slightly domed.

The undented iron scabbard is turning a plumb brown and has a brass throat, drag and mounts with both rings. Mounts are plain. Screwed to the scabbard between the mounts is an engraved brass plaque that reads “PRESENTED TO CAPT. LEVIN B. DAY BY THE NON COM OFFICERS OF 3^RD REGT. DEL. VOL. SEPT. 30, 1862.”

Levin Bevins Day was born in1814 in Sussex County, Delaware. Throughout his life Day worked as a farmer.

It is believed that Day was active in the abolitionist movement as his name appears on a county court document dealing with Delaware’s 1760 Emancipation law.

During the Mexican War Day was appointed a 1^st Lieutenant in a Company called the Kirkwood Rifles which was attached to the 13^th Pennsylvania Regiment.

With the coming of the Civil War Levin Day was commissioned Captain of Company D, 3^rd Delaware Infantry. Two of Captain Day’s sons also served in the regiment.

The regiment was engaged at Sulphur Springs, Chantilly and Antietam. An interesting side note to Captain Day’s service is that on one of the walls in Liberia Plantation house in Manassas there is some graffiti that reads “CAPT. L. B. DAY, 3^rd REGT. DEL. VOL.” Also, Day was one of only five line officers present for the battle of Antietam and wrote the regiment’s battle report. By September 27^th Day was in command of the regiment.

On March 27, 1863 Captain Day resigned from the 3^rd Delaware but on February 23, 1864 he was commissioned Captain of Company F, 1^st Delaware Cavalry.

While with this regiment Day served in the Baltimore area until May of 1864 when the regiment was assigned to the Army of the Potomac. It saw limited action at Cold Harbor and Petersburg through to the end of the war.

Captain Day was mustered out on June 30, 1865.

After the war Day returned to farming. He died on November 5, 1876.

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