DUG SILVER 6TH CORPS BADGE ID’D TO 49TH NEW YORK SOLDIER

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Item Code: 883-17

Badge meas. approx. 1.00 x 1.00 inch with wonderful, delicate cursive engraving on the face that reads “H. W. MILES / 49th REG. N.Y.S.V. / CO. H.”

Reverse is blank and missing pin.

Surfaces have some light tarnish around the edges otherwise it is clean and easily readable. No pin on back.

The soldier who owned this badge was Hiram W. Miles also known as Hiram Odell. As explained in his pension papers his father died when he was a child and he was later adopted. He went by the name of Miles until 1889 when he changed the name to Odell.

Hiram enlisted as a Private in Company H, 49th New York Infantry at Lockport, New York on September 2, 1861. At the time of his enlistment he is described as being 18 years old, standing 5’ 7” tall with blue eyes, light hair, light complexion and by profession a farmer. It is also stated that he was born in Winston, Canada but when he came to the United States is not known.

The 49th was assigned to the 4th and then later the 6th Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The regiment served in McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign where it saw its first action at Yorktown in April of 1862. On June 11, 1862 Private Miles was sent to the hospital at Camp Lincoln sick with fever and was later moved to Fortress Monroe and then allowed to go home to recuperate. He did not rejoin his regiment until January 2, 1863.

Back with his regiment Miles saw action at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg after which he became a re-enlisted veteran on Christmas Day of 1863. After his re-enlistment Miles was assigned to the Provost Guard of the 2nd Division, 6th Corps with whom he served till the end of the war. He was mustered out on June 27, 1865.

After the war Odell moved to Illinois and Indiana where he worked for the railroad. He died in Indiana on November 12, 1893.

Full military and pension records come with the badge. Item was recovered in the greater Richmond area.  [ad]

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