LIGHT INFANTRY HUNTING HORN FOUND AT THE STONE WALL NEAR THE ANGLE AFTER PICKETT’S CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG

LIGHT INFANTRY HUNTING HORN FOUND AT THE STONE WALL NEAR THE ANGLE AFTER PICKETT’S CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG

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This small Light Infantry Hunting horn was used to signal European Light troops like German “Jagers,” French “chasseurs” or English Light Infantry. Its wide use caused it to become the universal infantry insignia of the mid-Nineteenth Century. Due to its unusual size and shape this horn was examined by Mark Elrod who is the leading authority on Civil War era brass instruments. He stated that it is of German manufacture, is B-flat in pitch and no doubt dates to the Civil War period.

The horn meas. approx. 9.50 inches from the edge of the mouthpiece to the outer edge of the bell. It has three circular twists that meas. approx. 5.00 inches in height and the bell is flared outward at its mouth.

The horn shows signs of hard use. The flared section around the bell has a number of dents and several slightly open cracks. The bottom tube of the twist has been crushed and there looks to be an old repair just below the mouth piece. Despite all this the horn can still be made to sound a call.

With the horn is a commercially manufactured museum tag that reads “CONFEDERATE ARMY BUGLE FOUND AT THE STONE WALL AT “THE ANGLE” AFTER PICKETT’S CHARGE.”

This small horn may have been carried by a commanding officer or bugler who used its distinct sound as a form of recognition for his Company or regiment. This type horn was also used for hunting and men from the south would no doubt have been familiar with it.

The horn was originally part of the Jennie Wade Museum which was a collection of Gettysburg battlefield and battle related relics housed in the small brick house on East Cemetery Hill where Gettysburg civilian Jennie Wade was killed on July 3, 1863. This museum was opened in the 1920’s by former Gettysburg Mayor William G. Weaver. In the 1950’s the building and collection were sold to local businessman L. E. Smith who, along with Hollywood actor Cliff Arquette, ran a company called Gettysburg Tours, Inc.

Arquette, better known by his stage name of Charlie Weaver, opened a museum on the Baltimore Pike that housed his collection of war related artifacts as well as carved wood Civil War soldiers made by Arquette himself. The museum opened in March of 1959 as “CLIFF ARQUETTE’S SOLDIERS MUSEUM.” By the 1960’s Arquette changed the name of the business to “CHARLIE WEAVER’S AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE CIVIL WAR.” Arquette sold his museum and collection to L. E. Smith who in the 1970’s changed the name to “THE SOLDIER’S NATIONAL MUSEUM.” Smith revamped the Jennie Wade Museum and moved a majority of the artifacts in it to The Soldier’s National Museum. It was at this time that the artifact offered here began its connection with the Soldier’s National Museum where it remained until that repository’s closure in 2014.  [ad][ph:L]

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