File:Iron breastplate, back view (AFIP 337711), National Museum of Health and Medicine (4841983248).jpg
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Iron breastplate (AFIP 337711), National Museum of Health and Medicine Description: An iron breastplate, half of a defensive cuirass, perforated, perhaps by rifle balls. Taken from the body of a Confederate soldier killed on July 3, 1863 at the battle of Gettysburg. From the Army Medical Museum Surgical Catalogue: "4654. An iron breastplate, eighteen inches in its extreme length and nine inches in its extreme breadth, designed to protect the right thorax and abdomen, being a symmetrical half of a defensive cuirass. Its thickness is about one-sixteenth of an inch, and its weight is forty-five ounces. It is perforated below the center and at its inferior border as if by rifle balls. Taken from the body of a Rebel officer, killed at Gettysburg, 3d July 1863." Artifact ID: AFIP 337711, M-981.00453 Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Historical Collections Related material: For related historical information see subject files and accession records. Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (<a href="http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/</a>) |
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