Badge consists of four bars with a star shaped drop at bottom.

Each bar has a thin black border with semi-circular decorations on each end. The top bar still has the pin attached on the reverse. The center of the top bar is stamped “CO.E.”

Suspended by one chain link at each end is another bar similar to the one at top but this second bar has the number “46” stamped at center.

The third bar is suspended like the one above it but is stamped “PENN.”

The fourth bar is stamped with “VOL. INF.”

At the very bottom is a plain star shaped drop. Stamped at center are crossed rifles with bayonets fixed and the lettering “VOL. INF.”

Badge is in good condition. There is some minor surface dirt and spots of oxidation but nothing that detracts from the item.

The 46^th Pennsylvania was organized at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in early September of 1861. They saw action with the 5^th, 12^th and 20^th Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the 2^nd Corps of Pope’s Army of Virginia. They were engaged at 1^st Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Bentonville.

During the war the regiment lost 16 officers and 301 men killed, died of wounds and disease not to mention many others who were wounded and survived. The 46^th is considered as one of Fox’s “300 Fighting Regiments.”  [ad] [ph:L]

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