2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Three pieces of a presentation silver service set, each hand engraved “64th N.Y.V. “ with script “E.B.M.” and each with a different battle “Antietam”; “Fredericksburg” and “Malvern Hill.” VG. This monogram stood for Ebed M. Burke, who was the 1st Lieutenant Company A of this regiment. The 64th took a prominent part in the battle of Antietam, where Gen. Richardson was killed and Gen. Hancock succeeded to the command of the division. At Fredericksburg, in the famous assault of Hancock's division on Marye's heights the loss of the regiment was 72 in killed and wounded. Out of a total enrollment of 1,313, the regiment lost during service 182 by death from wounds and 129 from other causes. The division in which it served saw the hardest service and suffered the most heavy losses of any in the army and the 64th was one of the finest fighting regiments in the war. It bore without flinching the severest trials and won fame and glory for itself and the state.
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