American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents

2 3/4 x 9 in. silk ribbon with lettering and illustration printed in red and brown (few folds, with partial separation to fold in lower margin, light fraying to edges, light residue to top edge). A souvenir ribbon from the reunion of the Washington Artillery United Confederate Veterans Camp No. 15 in New Orleans, illustrated with a roaring tiger representing the unit's mascot. 

The Washington Artillery, which was originally organized ca 1838-1840, mustered into Confederate service on 26 May 1861. The first four companies of the elite Louisiana gunners were assigned to the eastern theater and fought in every major battle of the Army of Northern Virginia until the very end of the war. A fifth company served with the Army of Tennessee. Armed mostly with cannons captured in 1861 from the Baton Rouge Arsenal, the five companies of the Washington Artillery participated in over 60 engagements, including Antietam, Perryville, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Fredericksburg, First Manassas, Nashville, and Cold Harbor.