Civil War West Virginia Honorable Discharge Service Medal / 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Fr. 1925H* Tate | Mellon

Tate | Mellon

The obverse features a seated female figure clasping the shoulder of a uniformed boy holding a scroll

Individual bars are sealed in palastic packaging

Printed with a red "R" and "S" overprint

Then come Saturday it would have only taken ten of them for a six pack of beer to wash away the week

Civil War West Virginia Honorable Discharge Service Medal / 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Fr. 1925H* Tate | MellonIssued by the State of West Virginia in 1866. This is a Class I Honorable Discharge medal without ribbon and top bar. The planchet rim is impressed : HENRY WALTER QM SRGT 15TH REG INF VOLS The 15th West Virginia Volunteer Regiment, organized in August October 1862, saw most of its action between 1864 and 1865 having fought in The Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, The Battle of Lynchburg, The Battle of Cool Spring, The Battle of Opequon through to the Battle