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pron,jr.A Sword for General Grant.A regulation sword of the most costly style has just been finished at the works of the Ames Company, in Chicopee, MasschuscttaJ The grasp and guard are ornamented with classical designs, representing highly finished heads of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Minerva. The grasp is also inlaid with tortoise shell, held In place hy gold studs, giving that part ot the sword a beautiful appearance.' The pommel is elaborately finished and is encircled by a ling of diamonds, fourteen in number, and costing four hundred dollars, whieh'are set in pure gold. Just under the the circlet of diamonds is a shield with the motto, tlSic Floret 22epublica. On the cross guard surrounding Gen. Grant’s monogram is the following inscription: “Jo Daviess Co., DL, to Major General Ulysses S. Grant; the hero of the Mississippi.’? The .scabbard is profhsely ornamented. The space between the upper and middle-bands is filled with tablets eurronnded with appropriate devices, on which is engraved a record ot the various battles in which General Grant took part in Mexico; then the Illinois coat of aims, and below, running nearly to the top' of the scabbard, is a file, on which is .recorded the battles and sieges in the Mississippi Valley, making in all twenty-Beven battles and sieges In which GeneralGrant has been / engaged. The scabbard is heayfly plated with’gold, and some of the devices'and* ornaments are ofsolid gold. The cost is one thousand dollars. * ■ i
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Chicago Daily Tribune
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 27, 1864
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