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Item Code: 450-39
Dark blue wool kepi with recessed disc, GAR side-buttons with a gold cord chin strap and a thick unbound leather visor. The body of the cap is dirty however it is a nice solid item. The disc has two pencil eraser sized moth holes while the body has very light scattered moth nips. Attached to the front is a false embroidered number “6” with the remains of another number that is now missing. The visor is very firmly held in place. The interior has a full sweatband and brown cotton liner. Sewn to the lining is a cloth label with a period ink inscription of “C. A. HOWARD.” The crown also has a very strong silver stamp of “G. W. SIMMONS & CO.” The interior is really very clean.
The cap is identified to Charles A. Howard of Company A, 45th Massachusetts. Along with the cap is Howard’s Eagle masthead discharge in good condition with all ink entries bold and readable and three printed documents relating to the reunions and history of Company A. One of the documents was filled out in ink by Howard at the bottom. All three documents are in good condition. There is also a pre-printed envelope addressed to the Historian of the regiment. Envelope is torn at edges and three-quarters of the way across the front. Reverse of the piece has a pencil inscription that reads “CO. A 45TH MY DISCHARGE PAPERS WERE IN HERE.”
Charles A. Howard was born in New York City in 1840. He was a 22 year old farmer living in Southbridge, Massachusetts when he enlisted as a Private for nine months service on September 15, 1862. The 45th was assigned to North Carolina where they saw action at Kinston and Whitehall. The regiment was present but not engaged at Goldsboro. Later in their service they were engaged at Core Creek on the railroad near Goldsboro. The regiment returned to Massachusetts and was mustered out on July 8, 1863. During its service the regiment suffered 85 men killed, wounded, missing and died of disease.
After his service Howard returned home and married his wife Lucinda who tragically died in 1871 at the age of 25. Howard was an active member of the Nathaniel Lyon Post #61 of the GAR in Webster, Mass. He died on April 3, 1912 and is buried in Wilsonville Cemetery, Thompson, Connecticut
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