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- GLC#
- GLC01423.01-View header record
- Type
- Objects
- Date
- 20 July 1865
- Author/Creator
- Ordway, K.G., fl. 1855-1865
- Title
- [Congressional mourning ribbon]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 ribbon Height: 23 cm, Width: 6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Black ribbon with gold trim and fringes. There is a white rosette sewn on to the top with a gold sequence star and two sequence stars on the black part of the ribbon directle below the rosette. The entire ribbon is covered in black transparent silk. Originally accompanied by a letter from K.G. Ordway, the ribbon's designer and an inauguration day admission card for March 4 1865.
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