BEAUTIFUL MOURNING BROACH, LUTHER LADD, 6TH MASS. – KIA IN BALTIMORE RIOTS

BEAUTIFUL MOURNING BROACH, LUTHER LADD, 6TH MASS. – KIA IN BALTIMORE RIOTS

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This is an incredible piece!  An oval mourning broach made of gold plated brass and black enamel. Housed under beveled glass in the center is an image of Luther C. Ladd of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry. The piece measures approximately 1.25” x 1.75”.

In the photo, Ladd is in uniform wearing his tall shako hat. The photo is surrounded by the black enamel and the broach is edged with a fine twist. Original t-bar straight pin is mounted on the back with a catch.

Ladd was from Lowell, Mass., and was 17 years old when he enlisted on 4/16/1861 as a Private in Company “D” of the 6th Mass. Infantry.  He was Killed on 4/19/1861 at Baltimore, MD, as the regiment was enroute to Washington, DC.

Ladd, Luther C., was the first to fall in defense of his country in the War of the Rebellion. He was the son of John Ladd, and was born in Bristol, Dec. 22, 1843, on the John Ladd farm, south of Fowler's River. In 1853, he and his father removed to Alexandria. There he remained laboring on a farm and attending the district schools, till 1860, when he went to Lowell and obtained work in the Lowell Machine shop. When President Lincoln issued his first call for 75,000 men in April, 1861, young Ladd enlisted for three months. On the 19th of April, while passing through Baltimore, this regiment was attacked by a mob. Luther C. Ladd was the first to fall. He received a fracture of the skull, and while still moving forward, was struck by a bullet which severed an artery in the thigh. It is said that his dying words were " All hail the stars and stripes!" Addison 0. Whitney, of Lowell, was also killed, and Merrill S. Wright of Lawrence died April 27, of wounds then received. The bodies of these three were returned north for interment.  [jet] [ph:L]

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