The Sons of Union Veterans Reserve was a military type organization. The items here listed belonged to a Sergeant of Reeder’s Battery. The group contains 4 general service eagle coat buttons and two cuff buttons. 3 of the coat buttons are marked Horstmann, Philadelphia while one is Waterbury Button Company. The two cuff buttons are Waterbury also. One looks to be newer than the other. All buttons have shanks. Group also contains a 1902 artillery hat cord, Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary medal, 1902 Battery A, 2^nd Artillery cap device, a watch chain with a SUV badge for a fob, a dance card for the H. H. Winchell Camp No. 43 and a patriotic postcard. There are two pieces of cloth insignia with the group. One is a number “2” made out of sky-blue kersey wool. This meas. approx.2.75 x 2.50 and Quartermaster Sergeant stripes made of red wool on black felt. They meas. approx. 3.00 x 3.75. Comes with a not so old collectors label that reads “Effects of a Sgt. in Reeders Battery #2 S.V. Easton, Pa. 1880.”