✅ SOLVED 1898 Brass Badge, Chickamauga Park, Ga Camp Thomas. Please identify

[wayfas4u]

Dug this little guy today at a Spanish American war camp in Albany Georgia. On the back I can make out Schwab & Sons Co. Milwaukee. I'm not sure exactly what I have here, please identify if anybody knows the history. Thank you!

 

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[can]

very nice find

 

[cw0909]

cant remember for sure, but i think a badge was posted b4
from the Schwab & Sons Co
i found this
https://books.google.com/books?id=O...wab Stamp & Seal Co., Milwaukee, Wis.&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=O...1y4awiXLiXb-zASzAmAg&ci=87,398,852,988&edge=0

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I found this article with a bit of research online.
I might be mistaken, but medal I've circled looks similar to yours.

Dave


Spanish-American War Item

This is a 1898 Camp Geo. H. Thomas Chickamauga Park Georgia Souvenir Medal.
This medal came in three varieties, and is made out of Bronze.
It should have “Schwaabs” stamped on the back.

A bit about the camp….

“…..Chickamauga Park, near Chattanooga, Tenn., was the point of concentration for the regular troops which were gathered for the war with Spain. It was the initial camp where the mobilization took place, and from which soldiers and supplies were dispatched to seacoast towns within easy striking distance of Cuba. When orders went out from army headquarters at Washington for the movement of the regulars to Chickamauga a thrill of soldierly pride swelled the breast of every man who wore Uncle Sam’s blue uniform, and there was a hasty dash for the new camp. There is nothing an army man, officer or private, dislikes so much as inactivity. Fighting, especially against a foreign foe, suits him better than dawdling away his time in idleness, and word to “get to the front” is always welcome. For nearly three weeks troops poured into Chickamauga on every train. They came from all parts of the country, and from every regiment and branch of the service. There were “dough-boys” and cavalrymen, engineers and artillerymen; some regiments were there in force, others were represented by detachments only. There were companies and parts of companies, squadrons and parts of squadrons, batteries and parts of batteries. It was a bringing together of Uncle Sam’s soldier boys from all conceivable sections of the country. The camp was well named. “Camp George H. Thomas” they called it, in memory of old “Pap,” the hero of Chickamauga, and men and officers alike took a very visible pride in being residents of the tented city. The establishment of the community at Camp Thomas was much like the establishment of a colony in an unsettled land, in so far as domestic conveniences were concerned. Everything had to be taken there, and each regiment, which was a small canvas town in itself, had to depend entirely upon its own resources”.

 

[fyrffytr1]

It's a kid's play badge and not worth keeping! I will recycle it for you as a favor and won't even charge you for the service. After all that's what friends are for!

 

[duggap]

I wish I had the facility to post a picture but I don't. But I am holding one of those badges that is different from the ones shown. It is a ladder badge with the word "Souvenir" and George H. Thomas Camp and 1898. It was found by me on a part of the Chickamauga battlefield that was NOT park property, but private property.

 

[wayfas4u]

sounds interesting to me Duggap

 

[wayfas4u]

Thank you for sharing this good info cw0909

 

[wayfas4u]

antiquarian, I agree with you, looks just like mine! Thank you for sharing your research and photos!

 

[duggap]

Looking at mine again, it has a six pointed star with a wreath around it.