AMERICAN CIVIL WAR INTEREST: A CARICATURE WALKING STICK

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR INTEREST: A CARICATURE WALKING STICK

DATED '3 JULY 1863', MID / LATE 19TH CENTURY

the horn handle carved as a naked Robert E. Lee slightly bent over, standing above a shield inscribed 'GEN LEE GOING SOUTH' and '3 JULY 1863', on an ebonised hawthorn shaft with a brass ferrule

100.5cm long

Catalogue Note

On 3 July 1863, was the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg during which Union troops repelled a huge Confederate artillery attack on Cemetery Ridge.