Anyone know what this Civil War Copper Name Plate was used for?

[Matt1344]

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[Tnmountains]

He may have had a box with personal effects he kept and this was on the box. It may have traveled with the wagons that followed the armies. May never know what it was but you have learned who he was . A very nice relic sir.