DescriptionWhite ceramic covering with gold lettering, name of Jos. A. Sedam at top and U.S. Signal Corp on the bottom. In the center there is a G.A.R. badge, with two cross United States flags and two cross signal flags as backdrops. It has a red, white and blue ribbon as a strap. The top of the stopper is very loose.
It is likely to have belonged to Joseph Sedam (or Sedan, as the name appears in William S. Stryker’s Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865), formerly of Co. H 14th Regiment NJV, who transferred to the U.S. Signal Corps on February 27th, 1864, and was discharged on June 23rd, 1865. In 1912, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the department commander in Boggs-Janeway Post No. 67 during the 45th annual encampment of the New Jersey department of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was also listed as a past commander for that post.
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