Civil War uniform jacket, hat cord, cartridge box and more 12th New Jersey

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Civil War uniform jacket, hat cord, cartridge box and more 12th New Jersey :
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This is the uniform of Captain William Potter who accepted the colors from General Lee at the confederate surrender at Appomattox. Just purchased from estate where there was a box labeled Potter civil war items. They also had the original jacket and told me a bit of their families history. I was intrigued and purchased everything. I found the note in the inside pocket of the jacket. The note states that the jacket was worn at the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox The jacket is in pretty poor condition. The buttons are marked horstmann & co ny & phi. The clover leaf badge is marked Captain William Potter 12th New Jersey volunteers. The blue enamel is almost all gone on the front face of the clover leaf badge. The cartridge case is not in great shape but of special note is the Frankfort Arsenal1833 mark on the leather strap. There is a pair of stirrups but they don\'t match. There are several rank shoulder straps that relate to later promotions. As well as several other things that are pictured.Civil War Union Army Officer. Captain of Company G, 12th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. He was the youngest son of James Boyd and Jane Barron Potter. His youth was not especially eventful, and devoted to study, first at the public school of the First Ward of the city, and later at the Harmony Academy, presided over by Joseph P. Sherman, where he remained until 1854. He then became a pupil at the West Jersey Academy during its first session, under the tutorship of Professors Snyder and Stevenson, but in October of 1857, having determined upon the law as a profession, entered the office of Hon. John T. Nixon. He remained until September, 1859, and the same month became a student of the law school of Harvard University. From this school he graduated in January, 1861, with the degree of L.L.B., and in September of the same year entered the junior class of Princeton College. Under the spur of patriotic ardor he abandoned his collegiate studies, and in July of the following year enlisted in Company K, Twelfth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. He was commissioned second lieutenant of the same company Aug. 14, 1862, and mustered into the service of the United States as such Sept. 4, 1862. He was promoted to a first lieutenancy of the same company and regiment Aug. 6, 1863, and to the captaincy of Company G Feb. 4, 1864. Capt. Potter became brevet major United States Volunteers for meritorious services, May 1, 1865, by promotion of the President of the United States, and was, in 1866, commissioned aide-de-camp to Governor Marcus L. Ward, of New Jersey, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, upon whose staff he served for three years. To review Col. Potter’s military experience, he was detailed as ordnance officer of the Third Division, Second Army Corps, and acted as such in the campaigns of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, on the staff of Maj. Gen. William H. French, and with Brig.Gen. Alexander Hays. He served in that capacity until Oct. 1, 1863, and was then appointed judge-advocate of the division on the staff of Gen. Hays, continuing thus until he rejoined his regiment and took command of his company. He was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, on the 6th of May, 1864, and reported again for duty at Cold Harbor, Va., June 4th of the same year. On the 1st of July, 1864, he was detailed as aide-de-camp to Col. Thomas A. Smyth, commanding Third Brigade of the Second Division of the Second Army Corps. On the 1st of August, 1864, he was made judge advocate on the staff of Maj.-Gen. John Gibbon, commanding the Second Division, Second Army Corps, and served thus until Jan. 15, 1865, when he was detailed as aid to Maj.-Gen. John Gibbon, commanding the Twenty—fourth Army Corps, Army of the James, and acting judge-advocate of the corps. He remained on duty in the latter capacity until mustered out of service, June 4, 1865. During this period Col. Potter was present in the following engagements: Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Auburn, Bristow Station, Blackburn’s Ford, Locust Grove, campaign of Mine Run, Morton’s Ford, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Crater, Deep Bottom (second engagement), Reams’ Station, Boydton Road, assault and capture of Petersburg, Rice’s Station, and Appomattox Court-House. By an order from headquarters, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, in company with five other officers, he was detailed to deliver the colors surrendered by Gen. Lee’s army, seventy-six in number, to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, of the War Department, at Washington, which ceremony occurred on May 1, 1865. He was the only New Jersey officer present on this occasion. Col. Potter, during his military career, displayed gallantry and judgment, which won for him the highest encomiums from his superior officers. In the official report of the battle of Chancellorsville he is spoken of as \"indefatigable, brave, and zealous; his department was never better served,\" and the same report of the Gettysburg engagement pronounces him \"indefatigable in the discharge of his duties.\" That he won the regard and affection of his brigade and division commanders is evinced in letters recommending him for promotion. Maj.-Gen. Winfield S. Hancock pronounces him \"a valuable officer and deserving consideration.\" Gen. Thomas A. Smyth, in a letter to Governor Parker, says, \"It affords me much pleasure to recommend to your Excellency the name of Capt. W.E. Potter, Twelfth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, judge-advocate, etc. He is a gallant officer, a strict disciplinarian, and as an executive officer he has very few if any equals. His assiduous attention to his duty has called forth the highest encomiums from his superior officers.\" This letter is cordially indorsed by Maj.-Gen. John Gibbon. Maj.Gen. William H. French speaks of him as a \"young officer full of energy, capacity, and a proper amount of military ambition, with a fine personal character. His conduct in the field and in the presence of the enemy displayed all the qualities required to constitute a commander of soldiers.\" Col. Potter received from Princeton College his degree of A.B. in 1863, and of A.M. in 1866. He was admitted as an attorney-at-law in 1865, and as a counselor in 1869. Having begun practice in Bridgeton, he in 1870 formed a copartnership with J. Boyd Nixon, with whom he has since continued his professional labors, and attained a prominent position at the bar of South Jersey. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1868, as also to the convention held at Cincinnati in 1876, and an elector on the Garfield ticket in 1880. He was elected an honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati of New Jersey, July 4, 1874, and president of the New Jersey Union Officers’ Association for 1880. The colonel was on the 27th of May, 1869, married to Alice, daughter of the late Alfred Eddy, D.D., of Niles, Mich., Their children were Alfred E., James Boyd, David, Alice, and Francis