Description

CIVIL WAR M1840 AMES ARTILLERY SWORD SCABBARD 1862
Length: 37 Inches overall with a 32″ blade that is 1 1/4″ wide.
The blade is excellent and shiny
Marked: Ames Mfg. Co. Chicopee Mass and dated 1862
Inspected by A.D.K.. indicating the inspector Andrew D. King.
Brass hilt, nice leather grip with twisted brass wire, solid scabbard.
Ames produced 839 Artillery Swords that year.
Condition: Very Good to Excellent. Wear commensurate of age and use with pitting, rust and scratches

This 1862 Ames Model 1840 artillery saber is a regulation Union sidearm carried by Federal light artillery troops during the American Civil War. Ames of Chicopee, Massachusetts, produced the majority of these curved, single-edged sabers for the U.S. Ordnance Department; the present example bears the firm’s mark, the 1862 date, and the inspection stamp of Andrew D. King.
Its 32-inch blade and brass-hilted grip represent the standard equipment of Union artillerymen who helped preserve the United States and, through the war’s outcome, made possible the permanent abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment. It was used by Federal forces in a conflict that cost hundreds of thousands of lives changing the course of American history and ultimately ending legal slavery in the United States.

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