Box of relics from Gettysburg
name: label: recipient
content: Hancock, Winfield Scott
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden box full of metal shrapnel and debris from Gettysburg was presented in 1885 to Major General Winfield Scott Hancock. A little more than two decades earlier, Hancock was leading Union troops on the battlefield in order to repel Pickett's Charge. On July 3, 1863 he was shot through the thigh. The box of relics stood as a reminder of the dangers of war and the courage it took to face those dangers head on.
label: Description
content: If you look closely you can see the engraved names of where the relics were found on different areas of the battlefields of Gettysburg.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Gettysburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Memorial
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kagan, Neil, editor. Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.37245
label: accession number
content: 115588
label: catalog number
content: 37245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: relics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 20 1/2 in x 2 in; 36.195 cm x 52.07 cm x 5.08 cm