Boilermaker27
Full Member
This brass plate was found in an old dump in St. Louis, Mo. On one side it had some old newspaper stuck to it, the brass acted to preserve the newspaper. Looking at the pieces of paper, which are small, we can see the words "Meade" Gen'l G..." also since several pieces of newspaper survived we can easily read the words division, brigade, and one piece reads partially "responded to the enemy's fire". Also, one piece of newspaper had the word "Louis P", living in St Louis and since this was the top of the page we know that what it said was "St Louis Post Dispatch", so we know it was wrapped in newspaper from the civil war. Question is, we don't know what it is? It is brass, and measures about 2 1/2 inches by about 1 3/8 inches. Top number is a "1" middle "492" and bottom is an "H". Any ideas?


