Stamped brass frame with a scrollwork decoration on the face holds a 4.50 inch blue ribbon with gold printing that reads “SOUVENIR 50^th ROUND-HEAD REUNION WEST MIDDLETOWN PENN’A AUG. 25, 1915.” Printed beneath the word “SOUVENIR” is a 9^th Corps badge in a wreath. Left side of ribbon is split. Gold printing is strong.

Reverse has original pin and paper maker’s label.

The 100^th Pennsylvania Infantry was known as “The Round Head Regiment” because though Pennsylvania’s regiment quota was filled up, Dr. Daniel Leasure, who had already raised two companies, went to Washington to visit Secretary of War Cameron and asked if he could raise an independent regiment. Cameron asked Leasure if he could bring out a regiment as good as the two companies he had already raised. Leasure replied, “I have no other kind to bring”.  Gen. Winfield Scott who happened to be present replied, “We will call them Roundheads”.  This was in honor of Cameron’s Scotch-Irish ancestors who were loyal to Oliver Cromwell’s English Roundheads.  Also, many of the men from Lawrence and surrounding counties in Western Pennsylvania that became the 100th PA were of Scotch-Irish stock and were descendants of those loyal to Cromwell in the English Civil War.

The 100^th Pennsylvania was assigned to the 9^th Corps and served in over 96 battles and skirmishes to include 2^nd Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, the Vicksburg Campaign and Grants Overland Campaign. During its service the regiment lost 18 officers and 391 enlisted men killed and died of disease.  [AD]

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