United States. A Civil War Medal of Honor for Action at Weldon Railroad, Sylvester Martin, 88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Auction and seldom awarded

and seldom awarded

marked "GWL"

the flaps held up with black metal hooks fed through embroidered loops

though increasingly prosperous

Oklahoma with the Army Air Force Schools

United States. A Civil War Medal of Honor for Action at Weldon Railroad, Sylvester Martin, 88th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Auction and seldom awardedType III (1904). (silvered bronze and green enamels with a bronze gilt suspension, engraved "Captain Sylvester H Martin, Co. K, 88th Pa. Inf. Vols. Weldon Railroad, Aug. 19, 1864." on the reverse, 38. 2 mm x 56. 5 mm inclusive of its eagle and VALOR suspension, original ribbon with pinback); Army Civil War Campaign Medal (bronze, numbered "M. No. 1610" on the edge, 33 mm, original ribbon, brooch pinback); Grand Army of the Republic Veteran's Medal