SOUVENIR BADGE FOR THE MUSTER OUT OF THE 8th OHIO VOLUNTEERS IN 1898

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A nice souvenir brass badge made for celebrations on the muster out of the 8th Ohio after its service in Cuba in 1898. The upper bar reads “Souvenir” on a red, white and blue background, and is made in the form of a scroll. The badge is in the shape of a shield with wreath border and reads, “Mustering out / 8th O.V.I. / Wooster, O. / 1898/ Nov. 10-20,” all placed around a vignette of stacked rifles with bayonets, from which a knapsack and canteen are suspended. Measures overall approx. 2" long and 1 1/4" wide.

Ohio fielded an “8th Ohio” in the Spanish American War as well as the Civil War. The regiment mustered in at Camp Bushnell, Columbus, Ohio, May 13th 1898, leaving the same day for Camp Alger, Va., where it remained until July 5, when it was ordered to Santiago to serve under Nelson Miles. The regiment sailed from Newport News to Cuba aboard the transport St. Paul, arriving July 10, and moving to reinforce the 5th Army Corps under Shafter on July 11, who was stalled in his attempts to capture Santiago as Yellow Fever increasingly threatened the army. Two more days of bombardment by U.S. land and naval forces, and generous amounts of whiskey during negotiations for a “capitulation” rather than surrender, along with agreement to repatriate Spanish soldiers back to Spain, led to the surrender of the city. The regiment sailed from Cuba August 18, arrived in NY August 26, and in Columbus, Ohio, the next day, where it was furloughed for sixty days and mustered out in November, officially as of November 21, though as the pin makes clear, the process and celebrations took several days. They entered service with a little over 1,200 officers and men. They suffered no combat losses but lost 72 officers and enlisted men to disease.

The condition is good, with a Milwaukee maker’s mark on the reverse. Losses to the red on the lower left of the pin bar and to the blue on the right. The brass is bright. The pin is present.  [sr]

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