Confederate Cavalry Saber and Scabbard

1860–1865

Place madeColumbia, South Carolina, United States, North America

Steel, brass, leather; iron, paint

Overall: 4 1/4 in. × 43 in. × 5 in. (10.8 × 109.2 × 12.7 cm)

Gift of Charles MacCauley

1922.124ab

This sword is identified in the accession records as a "Confederate cavalry saber."

DescriptionSaber with curved, single-edged steel blade with a broad, full length fuller adjacent to a shorter, narrower fuller; brass half-basket hilt with two sweeping branches on obverse side and oval counter-guard; grip covered in leather and wrapped with wire; helmet-shaped pommel without surface decoration; black painted iron scabbard with two carrying rings and asymmetrical drag.

Markingsstamped: on reverse side of blade below hilt: "Columbia S. C."

ClassificationsMILITARY TOOLS & EQUIPMENT: SWORD