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General McClellan’s sword


This saber and scabbard were owned by Major General George B. McClellan, U.S. Army. It is a cavalry officers’s saber, Model 1840. This model sword was used by cavalry officers, Union and Confederate, during the Civil War.


Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Gift of the Honorable George B. McClellan

 

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