This sword is a beauty! This is a fantastic presentation-grade sword manufactured by the German firm W. Clauberg of Solingen. The slightly-curved blade measures 32 ¾-inches long and is ornately etched on both sides with patriotic martial designs accented with foliate patterns. Likewise the top edge of the blade is decorated with foliate designs and marked "IRON PROOF". The gilded-brass hilt has an ornately decorated half-basket guard of intertwined oak leaves and acorns with a small "US". The quillon terminates with an eagle's head. The obverse grip features a gilded-brass detailed scene of Lady Columbia with her sword and shield. The reverse grip panel features a gilded-brass foliate design with a large faux ruby red gemstone mounted centrally. The pommel has a detailed eagle with shield design and the pommel cap has a faux orange gemstone mounted centrally surrounded by 16 smaller faux red gemstones. The silver-metal scabbard is beautifully accented with gilded-brass mounts in the shape of serpents. The throat and drag feature gilded-brass foliate decoration with an eagle and panoply of arms on the obverse side. The scabbard is engraved on the reverse side between the throat and upper mount: "Presented to / Col. C. A. R. Dimon / commanding 1.U.S. Vol. Infty. / by the enlisted men / of the command." The records show that Charles Augustus Ropes Dimon, a resident of Salem, Massachusetts enlisted as a private on April 15, 1861. On April 30, 1861 he mustered in to "I" Company of the Massachusetts 8th Infantry. He mustered on August 1, 1861 at Boston. On February 20, 1862 he was commissioned into Field and Staff of the 30th Massachusetts Infantry as a 1st Lieutenant and discharged for promotion in October of that year. On October 20, 1862 he was commissioned into Field and Staff of the 2nd Louisiana Infantry serving as a Major from which he resigned on June 22, 1863. On March 8, 1864 he was commissioned into Field and Staff of the U.S. Volunteers 1st Infantry as Colonel. He mustered out on November 27, 1865. He was brevetted a Brigadier General on March 13, 1865. Following the war he served in many prominent offices of the G.A.R. He died in Lowell, Massachusetts on May 21, 1902. Our friends at CivilWarData.com even had an image of Dimon. There is a binder of information on Dimon as well as on the multiple regiments with whom he served. This is a gorgeous sword that was carried by a soldier that rose from the rank of a private to end his service at the rank of a Brevet Brigadier General.

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