Guns International #: 102793746
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Guns International #: 102793746
Category - Collectibles - Civil War
- Edged Weapons Pre 1900
Sword, Flask and Image of Col. P.P Bixby 6th NH Volunteers
Description: Model 1850 Foot Officer's Sword of Major (Colonel) P.P. Bixby - 6th NH Volunteers - POW and WIA at Petersburg, with Engraved Flask, CDV and documentation binder… 30.5" slightly curved single-edged spear point blade with 18.5" stopped median fuller, blade 1.1" wide at ricasso. Overall length 36.5" with a 6" hilt, a cast brass guard and a grooved wooden covered in leather with fourteen wraps of twisted wire. Blade unmarked as to maker or retailer, with simple etched decorations featuring flowing foliate motifs on both sides with a large US in the center of the reverse and a patriotic panoply of arms on the obverse. The sword is accompanied by its top-seamed leather scabbard with brass mounts. The upper mount is engraved on its face: Presented to/Maj. P.P. Bixby/6th N.H. Vols./Oct. 15, 1862. The sword is accompanied by a leather covered glass flask with pewter top that is engraved with the same presentation as on the scabbard mount and in the same hand. A CDV of Bixby is also included, along with a large binder of research about him and the 6th NH… Phineas P. Bixby (1829-1877) was a New Hampshire wholesale grocer from Concord NH, when he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant and joined the staff & field of the 6th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, as its adjutant, in early 1862… After serving in Burnside's 9th Corp Coastal North Carolina Expedition in mid 1862, the 9th Corp was transferred to Pope's Army of Virginia…Bixby was captured at 2nd Manassas on August 29, 1862 and confined at Libby Prison in Richmond until he was exchanged in early October, 1862… He returned to his regiment and was almost immediately promoted to major…The regiment ended 1862 fighting at Fredericksburg… The 6th started 1863 with the infamous Mud March and was then transferred to the Western Theater where they participated in the Siege of Vicksburg and later Jackson, MS…The 6th NH spent the last part of 1863 in operations in and around Cincinnati, OH and Covington, KY, as protectors of the region from Morgan's raiders… In January of 1864 they moved to operations in and around Knoxville, TN, in defense of Longstreet's expedition into eastern TN… The 6th NH then returned to the Army of the Potomac where they fought at The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. From there the 6th NH continued in the Overland Campaign, fighting at Cold Harbor and then on to the Siege of Petersburg, where they were engaged during the first assault at The Crater… Bixby was wounded twice before Petersburg. First on June 16 during the initial assault and again on July 15. The second time the wound kept him out of action until he returned to the regiment on November 1, thus allowing him to miss the diaster at The Crater. Shortly after his second wounding, Bixby was promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 28 and on February 21, 1865 was promoted to full colonel. He commanded the regiment during most of 1864 and into 1865 and also served as brigade commander during the last part of the war… Bixby was discharged on July 17, 1865 and returned to NH where he served as a civil servant… The inscription on the scabbard commemorates the date that Bixby was promoted to major… Note: The first image is of Lt. Bixby in 1862. The last image is of Col. Bixby in 1865...It looks as though Lt Bixby "Seen the elephant" and lived to tell about it.. Price: $11,500.00 Contact Seller |
Guns International #: 102793746
Guns International #: 102793746