2nd ARMY CORPS, 2nd DIVISION CORPS BADGE - MADAUS COLLECTION

2nd ARMY CORPS, 2nd DIVISION CORPS BADGE - MADAUS COLLECTION

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Silver official badge of the Second (II) Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. New York: J.G. Packard, 1863. The lack of colored enamel indicates that the wearer would have been of the corps’ s Second Division. Approx. 1 in. diameter.

The trefoil was officially adopted by the corps on 21 March 1863 and cloth badges with the emblem were distributed to the troops in April. This is an unusual and scarce variant of the silver corps badge, with the stippled trefoil engraved into a circle, and was produced by J. G. Packard of New York in 1863.

Provenance: From the collection of author, historian, and extensive collector, Howard “Howie” Madaus (1943-2007). Accompanied by a small envelope with a description of the badge handwritten by Madaus.

The ambition of Madaus’ badge collection was to assemble representative examples of every major type of Civil War corps badge worn by the various branches of the Union Army, including specimens from each division of every army corps, along with numerous rare and previously undocumented varieties. In both its breadth and depth, his private holdings likely surpassed those of many public institutions, and portion of the collection is now offered here for the first time at public action.

Howard Madaus was a distinguished scholar and curator whose expertise in American Military history and flags earned him national recognition. An active member of the Company of Military Historians, the American Society of Arms Collectors, the North-South Skirmish Association, and the Maryland Arms Collectors Association, he built his reputation through decades of dedicated scholarship. From 1968 to 2003, he served as assistant curator of history at the Milwaukee Public Museum, later becoming curator of the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and finally Chief Curator of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

In addition to his museum work. Madaus authored numerous influential books and articles o firearms, the Civil War, and American flags. His groundbreaking Battle Flags of the Confederate Army of Tennessee (1976) established him as a national authority, followed by major studies such as The Flags of the Iron Brigade (1997) and The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict (2006). His expertise reached broad audiences through appearances on the History Channel, A&E, and PBS, and over the course of his career he emerged as one of the foremost authorities on the Unites States Civil War flags.  [ph:L]

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