IDENTIFIED PAIR OF CIVIL WAR SURGEON’S BLOOD-SPATTERED GAUNTLETS

IDENTIFIED PAIR OF CIVIL WAR SURGEON’S BLOOD-SPATTERED GAUNTLETS

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Finding a genuine, period pair of gauntlets has become extremely difficult, as most seen now are either post-war or Masonic in origin. This pair, however, is definitively Civil War period, as well as identified.  In the interior of both cuffs is stenciling that reads:  “DR. J.R. BROWN, / 57TH I.V. / U.S.A.”

Jesse R. Brown, born in Preble County, OH in 1827, was residing in Dalton, IN when he enlisted on 10/30/61 at Richmond, IN as an Assistant Surgeon and was commissioned into the Field & Staff of the 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry on 11/20/61. Accompanying the 57th Brown would participate in the Battle of Shiloh, where the regiment had multiple casualties; it can be presumed that Surgeon Brown attended to these casualties in the field, as these gauntlets are spattered, on both cuffs, with what is in all likelihood arterial blood based upon the medical, physiological fact that, under pressure, blood will spray or spurt.

Dr. Brown purposefully had the thumbs removed from both the right and left gauntlets, so as to be able to palpate his patient’s carotid or radial (wrist) pulse. Both gauntlets remain in overall very good condition, with some minor seam openings; the gauntlets are constructed of a fine, buff color thin leather – the hands of each are soft and supple, while the cuffs were both constructed in a stiffer mode.

Surgeon Brown resigned due to disability shortly after Shiloh, on 4/19/62. He re-enlisted on 6/24/64 as an Assistant Surgeon and was commissioned into Field & Staff 124th Indiana Infantry; declined commission; dated and method of discharge not given. Brown did apply for a pension in 1866, and his wife filed for a widow’s pension in 1903; acquiring the military & pension records from the National Archives may provide more detailed information.

Jesse R. Brown died on 1/21/1903 in Greens Fork, Wayne County, IN; the chief cause of death is listed as Rheumatism & disease of the heart, “Duration since Army Service”.

Accompanied by a moderate amount of online research material as well as an LOA from a previous seller.  [ld][ph:L]

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