Civil War Identification Tag. Massachusetts--East Boston. Shield, WAR OF 1861. Maier-Stahl 2D. Daniel Lewis, Company E, 11th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. White Metal. Very Fine. 31 mm. Pierced for suspension. The back is inscribed DANIEL LEWIS. / 75 WHYTE STREET / EAST BOSTON, MASS. Extremely rare.<p>Daniel Coffin Lewis was born in 1841, in Vassalboro, Maine to Prince Baxter Lewis and Harriet Gardner Coffin. He enlisted in Boston on June 13, 1861, as a private and was mustered into E Company of the Massachusetts 11th Infantry. Only a month later, on July 21, he was wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run, and taken prisoner. After six months imprisonment, he was released January 3, 1862, and discharged for disability in November 1862, at Falmouth, Virginia.<p>Daniel Lewis was later married to Bernice Burlingham, a native of California, where he later retired, and passed away at the age of 82 on March 17, 1924, in Fresno.<p>The 11th Massachusetts (known as the Boston Volunteers) saw heavy action throughout the War, being engaged at both the First and Second Battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. The regiment retuned to Massachusetts in July 1865, and was mustered out at Readville.<p>A large research file is included with this lot.
