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SCARCE WV (US) HONORABLE DISCHARGE MEDAL – GEORGE FRADD - 1st WV, BATTERY E

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As with many West Virginia Volunteers, George Fradd’s records lack generous detail.  He enlisted in 1862, mustered in in Buckhannon, and served with the Battery for its full term.

The medal itself is in a nice condition. Only very minor fraying is noted along the ribbon bar at top and cut edge at bottom.  A stylized “WV” gives way to a scroll reading “HONORABLY DISCHARGED” to form the base pin piece.  A single link suspends the drop medal, which features a volunteer soldier being presented with a formal accolade and laurel by lady liberty and an onlooking eagle.  The Great Seal of the State of West Virginia appears below on a shield, flanked by the years 1861 and 1865 and the state motto “Montani Semper Liberi” (Mountaineers are Always Free) appears on a banner at bottom.  The edge of the medal is stamped “Geo. W. FRADD BATTY E 1^st REG LT ARTILLY VOLS”.

Immediately upon the completion of the enlistment of the company, it was ordered to Clarksburg, and in turn to New Creek and Romney. At the latter place, the battery became, in 1863, a part of Campbell’s Fourth Brigade, First Division, Eighth Army Corps, serving with this brigade in the South Branch Valley, at Romney, Moorefield and vicinity, and with General Kelley in his campaign in the summer of 1863, to Cherry Run, Williamsport and Hedgesville on Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg, returning with the brigade to the South Branch Valley, serving in that locality until the summer of 1864.

Upon General Hunter’s return from Lynchburg, the battery was ordered to join the Army of West Virginia, and accompanied it to the Shenandoah Valley, taking part in the engagements with the enemy at Snicker’s Ferry, Cedar Creek, Kernstown, Bunker Hill and Berryville. At this time the battery was attached to the Artillery Brigade of the Army of West Virginia; was then in the fall of 1864, ordered to Maryland Heights, where it remained until January 1865, when the battery was ordered to the Artillery Camp at Camp Berry near Washington, D.C., and remained there until the close of the war.

While at Maryland Heights, Battery B was consolidated with Battery E, by order of the War Department, the consolidated battery remaining Battery E, under the command of Captain Moore. Lieut. B. H. H. Atkinson and 55 men was the transfer from B. to E. While at Camp Berry, D.C., President Lincoln was assassinated, and a detail from the battery of Lieut. Samuel A. Rapp and 30 men constituted a portion of the escort as the “Guard of Honor” accompanying the remains of Mr. Lincoln from the White House to the Capitol. At the close of the war, President Johnson conferred upon Captain Moore the rank of brevet major “for faithful and meritorious services during the war.”

An uncommon link to the Federal Volunteers of the new State of West Virginia with indirect links to the funeral of President Lincoln.  A prime piece for the collector of Veterans’ items.  [cm] [ph:L]

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