Germany, Heer. An Infanterie-Regiment 271 Feldherrnhalle Cuff Title for Officer Ranks consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac he led the Union Army

he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War

The document is signed in black ink by Major General and Commander of Infantry Division Großdeutschland

dated marked "1916" and marked with the British Broad Arrow production insignia on the bottom

and and Victory Medal (331784 BMBR

his civilian occupation had been a motor cyclist

Germany, Heer. An Infanterie-Regiment 271 Feldherrnhalle Cuff Title for Officer Ranks consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac he led the Union Army(Heer rmelband Feldherrnhalle fr Offiziere). Constructed of a woven olive drab cotton rayon blended cloth base, the obverse trimmed along both the top and bottom edges with machine embroidered silver aluminum wire tresses, bearing an inscription of FELDHERRNHALLE in Stterlin text of identical silver aluminum wire machine embroidery, unmarked, measuring 25 mm (w) x 520 mm (l), demonstrating minor material fatigue, in uniform removed and extremely fine