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Model 1840 Noncommissioned Officers Sword, with brass hilt and steel blade and scabbard, which includes a cotton sword case. Acquired by Major James B. Abbott in 1855, probably from the Ames Manufacturing Company of Cabotville, Massachusetts. Abbott used the sword throughout the Kansas Territorial troubles and through to Price Raid of the Civil War.
Creator: Ames Manufacturing Company
Date: between 1855 and 1864
Item Number: 209854
Call Number: 1887.25.1
KSHS Identifier: 1887.25.1
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Elections
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Military - Service - Militias
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Military - Wars - Civil War
Military - Weapons - Swords
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology - Armament - Armament, Edged - Sword
People - Notable Kansans - Abbott, James Burnett, 1818-1897
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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