A standard issue Confederate general service frame buckle. These have a number of variations and this thinner frame style is sometimes termed the “baby” frame version and thought to have been used more often by cavalry. As with the other frame styles, this would have been simply sewn by the center bar to a leather belt pierced with two rows of holes to engage the tongues cast integrally to one edge of the frame. It was a buckle that was simple and relatively easy and fast to cast. They appear in every theatre of the war and are about as close to a “regulation issue” Confederate buckle as you are likely to get.

This one was excavated near Malvern Hill, the site of the disastrous Confederate assaults that marked the last effort to break up or destroy McClellan’s withdrawal or, more euphemistically, his “change of base” on the Peninsula in the summer of 1862. This could have been lost during the battle or the ensuing month when Confederate forces intermittently harassed the Federal encampment while they shifted the focus of the war back to central Virginia. This is professionally mounted for display in a gold shadow box frame with an etched descriptive label mounted beneath.  [sr]

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