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CONFEDERATE SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR. Two-piece ...
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CONFEDERATE SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR. Two-piece bronze badge, retaining pin and clasp. Top bar engraved with name DAVID KAHN.
The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross. The reverse bears the motto of the Confederate States, DEO VINDICE ([With] God [as] our Vindicator) and the dates 1861-1865 also surrounded by a laurel wreath. The arms of the cross bear the inscription SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR.
Atlanta, GA, Charles W. Crankshaw, c. 1899.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR. Awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to veterans for faithful and heroic service.
David Kahn (d. 1926) served under the name David Cohen throughout the war. In April 1861 he enlisted in Company I, 8th South Carolina Infantry and the following year enlisted in Company G, 2nd South Carolina Cavalry. He fought in all major battles in the Army of Northern Virginia from 1st Bull Run, Brandy Station, the war’s largest cavalry battle, until in 1864 he was captured and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. After the war he and his wife operated a millenary shop in Richmond. In 1898 he became a clerk in the Interior Department in Washington, DC. He was color sergeant in Charles Rouss Camp 191, District of Columbia, United Confederate Veterans, he was also a member of the Washington Hebrew Congregation.
