HELP WITH SALT LAKE CITY G.A.R. BADGE/MEDAL 1850

[IdahoMan38]

SEPT 9TH 1850 UTAH SALT LAKE CITY G.A.R.

NOT QUITE SURE HOW THIS ONE FITS INTO THE TOTAL PICTURE, OF THINGS, WITH THE DATE OF 1850, AS THE DATE IS CONFUSING ON THIS PIECE, AS THE CIVIL WAR YEARS WERE BETWEEN AND THE FIRST GAR NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT/REUNION WAS IN 1866. BOTH NATIONAL AND STATE BADGES WERE ISSUED. SALT LAKE CITY HAD AN ENCAMPMENT IN 1909.

THIS WAS FOUND IN AN OLD YARD AND DUG. VERY NICE CONDITION FOR BEING DUG.

SELLING ON EBAY ANY INFO ON THIS APRECIATED

[Gypsy Heart]

Utah was organized as a Territory on September 9 1850

[PBK]

This could be either a Utah State GAR delegate's badge from an unspecified GAR encampment (state or national), or a souvenir badge from the 43rd National Encampment of the GAR, which was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12-13, 1909.

[IdahoMan38]

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP, MUCH APPRECIATED. DALE IN IDAHO

[lonewolfe]

nice find!

HH