A Civil War Soldier’s Carved Wooden Folk Art Memorial to his Service in the Union Army, c. 1863.
N.p. 1863. Dark carved wood, 11 ½ x 11 ½ x 1 inches, with bone border and star inlays in corners, an inlaid tree with carved names of Civil War battles as leaves. During the Civil War, wounded or captured soldiers would often pass their time waiting to return to.....