When vast swathes of volunteers were recruited from rural and farming districts the belligerent characteristics of roosters were well known, with even city-slickers getting some insight while betting at legal cockfights. The 7^th Ohio prided itself on its aggressiveness, their commanding officers reportedly raising the regiment’s fighting spirits at the Battle of Ringgold by raising rooster cries and even flapping their arms like the enraged animals to get everyone’s blood up. Photographs of both officers and men show a number of rooster pins proudly sported on uniforms along with corps badges and other comparatively mundane insignia. This one is commercially made, stamped brass, 1-1/2” wide with two brass loops on the reverse. The rooster is shown with feathers up, clearly on high alert and, interestingly, perched on a heraldic, twisted torse, indicating it was clearly intended as a coat of arms. Some minor age toning and stains, but no bends, cracks or breaks and both loops securely in place.  [sr][ph:L]

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