CIVIL WAR MASSACHUSETTS 1864 PRESENTATION GERMAN SILVER BUGLE

CIVIL WAR MASSACHUSETTS 1864 PRESENTATION GERMAN SILVER BUGLE

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This is an untouched Civil War German Silver double-twist bugle with mouthpiece in place, in very good condition, standing 10-3/4” tall with a 4-1/8” diameter bell fitted with a matching floating garland carrying a simple incised border line. The sections of the tube are joined by short ferrules and the tubing shows clearly a dovetailed, lengthwise seam. There are some minor age stains and tarnish, but only one slight dent on the left side of the bell. The face of the tube is professionally engraved in script just above the bell: Presented to / H.L. Perkins / by the Officers and members of the  / 17th Unattached Company of Mass Vols / Nov. 13th 1864.

This marked Perkins’s third enlistment as a musician in a company commanded by Captain John G. Barnes of Georgetown, Essex County, Mass., Perkins’ hometown. Hamilton Luzerne Perkins was born in 1843 and his first service, though at age 18, was with his parents’ permission, enrolling Aug. 25, 1862, and mustering in for nine-months service in a company under Capt. Barnes that would become Co. K of the 50th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Infantry. This regiment saw service in Louisiana, being posted at Baton Rouge until March 14, 1863, than taking part in a reconnaissance to Port Hudson March 7-27, an expedition to Bayou Montecino in April, and then in siege of Port Hudson May 26-July 9, including taking part in the assault of May 27 and supporting that of June 14, followed by the surrender of Port Hudson on July 9, and garrison duty there until journeying back to Boston from July 29-Aug. 11, and muster out Aug. 24, 1863. The regiment suffered 2 enlisted men killed in combat, but another 1 officer and 100 enlisted men who perished of sickness or disease. Perkins is listed as present on all muster rolls, though as sick in quarters on the March-April 1863 roll, and mustered out with the company on Aug. 24, 1863, at Wenham.

Perkins’s subsequent service was closer to home. He signed up up again with Barnes July 18,1864, with the company first designated the 2nd Unattached Company of Mass Militia, and then the 17th Unattached Company. These “Unattached Companies” were Massachusetts troops enrolled for coastal defense. Perkins was mustered in for 100-days service on Aug. 5, 1864, and officially mustered out at Fort Pickering on Winter Island at Salem on Nov. 12, 1864. This was the day before his official muster-in for his third term of service, and the date of presentation of the bugle: November 13, 1864, once again into the 17th Unattached Company, but this time for one-year’s service. His actual enrollment, however, dated back to Oct. 15, with the November date of muster-in being a formality and applied to all in the company. This was in accordance with October 1864 orders to commanders of the 100-day unattached companies to re-enlist them for one-year, and recruit new men to replace those declining to re-enlist. He was officially mustered as a “private” and then a “drummer” the next day, perhaps indicating broader musical abilities, or just a clerical catch-all for a company musician. He served until muster out June 30, 1865, at Galloup’s Island, Boston Harbor.

Perkins had listed his occupation as a shoe-cutter when enlisting, and was apparently living at home with parents and two brothers, and his first enlistment papers note the consent of his parents. He was reportedly born in Georgetown and an1865 census catches the family there. He married in 1869, and the 1880 census finds him still in Georgetown, living with his wife and two daughters in the household of his father-in-law, a boot and shoe manufacturer. At that time, however, he lists his occupation as “merchant tailor,” which seems to have remained his occupation, though he later resided in Haverhill. He died in February 1916 and was interred in West Newbury, Essex County, MA, though one cemetery listing seems to imply he may have died in Canada.

This is a very good, untouched, no-doubt-about-it Civil War bugle with a very good, dead-real presentation.  [sr][ph:L]

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