Here is a fine, silver, Maltese Cross 5^th Army Corps ID disc from a member of Company K, 91^st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. With only the initials “R.C.” inscribed at the center of the badge, the piece is identified to just two soldiers who fit the criteria in Company K, 91^st PA; they are: Reuben Chafee and Robert Chism. No further research done on these individuals.

Organized in September 1861, the 91^st Pennsylvania Infantry was an active and hard-fought outfit in the Eastern Theater It initially spent time on guard duty at various points in Washington. Combat operations followed at the battles of Fredericksburg including the Mud March, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg at LRT, Lee’s Retreat, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Petersburg, Cold Harbor, Weldon R/R, Hatcher’s Run, Five Forks, Sailor’s Creek, and Appomattox. The regiment mustered out on July 10, 1864 at Washington, D.C. It also marched in the Grand Review.

A beautiful, jeweler-engraved, 5^th Army Corps, silver Maltese Cross badge device has four triangle segments that are all engraved. The top and bottom segments exhibit “Co K” and “P.V.” while the left and right segments show “91^st” and “REGt” respectively. All outer edges are lightly engraved at the center of the badge is a small, tooled circle with two engraved script initials “R. C.” within. The T-pin back arrangement on the backside is broken. A fine, original, Civil War badge device from a partially-identified Pennsylvania soldier.

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