Excavated cast metal soldier's identification disc. Traces of gilding. Obverse cast with Federal eagle and perimeter legend "War 1861 / United States." Verso stamped, "Sergt. T. J. Wood / Co. H. /Reg. / Del. Vols. / Wilmington".

A very rare ID disc excavated at Gettysburg, issued to Thomas J. Wood, who had enlisted as 1st Sergeant at Wilmington, Delaware, on 12 June 1861 into Company I of the 2nd Delaware Infantry. 

The regiment engaged often throughout their enlistment, fighting in the Peninsula Campaign before seeing heavy action at Antietam, where they suffered many losses fighting around the Sunken Road (Bloody Lane). They also engaged at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville before fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg, where again they took heavy losses. There, Wood was injured on the second day after he reportedly took over command when the officers of his regiment were disabled or killed. 

Still more combat faced the 2nd Delaware as they joined the Overland Campaign in 1864, fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, the Bloody Angle, and Cold Harbor before the regiment faced the expiration of its term. 

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