Presentation sword and pistol, 53rd NY SOLD

Wonderful museum grade Zouave / Chasseur grouping of the presentation silver hilt sword and Colt M1851 Navy revolver of Col. G.A. Buckingham of the 53rd New York Infantry (and other units). Revolver was enhanced many years ago, but without question, original inscription.

History of the Regiment

Mustered in: August 27 to November 15, 1861
Mustered out: March 21, 1862

The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.

First Organization
D'Epineuil Zouaves

Colonel Lionel J. D'Epineuil received, August 2, 1861, authority from the War Department to recruit a regiment of infantry. This regiment received its numerical designation from the State, and was organized in New York City, October 12, 1861. It was recruited in that city, but received many men from other parts of the State. Its members were mostly Frenchmen, but one company was formed of Indians from the Tuscarora Reservation. It was mustered in the United States service for three years between August 27 and November 15, 1861 at New York city.
The regiment left the State November 15, 1861; served at and near Washington, D. C., and Annapolis, Md., from november 20, 1861; in Burnside's Expeditionary corps, from January 3, 1862; at Fort Monroe, Va., Annapolis, Md., Suffolk, Va., and finally Washington, D. C. from January 26, 1862; Company A was transferred to the 17th Infantry, as Company G, March 8, 1862; and the regiment honorably discharged and mustered out March 21, 1862, at Washington, D. C.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Antione Vignier de Monteil and a few enlisted men served with the 9th Infantry in the action at Roanoke Island, N. C. February 8, 1862; and the regiment lost, killed in action, 1 officer; of wounds received in action, on detached service, 2 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 7 enlisted men; total 1 officer, 9 enlisted men; aggregate, 10; of whom 3 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.

Second Organization