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W. J. McElroy Short Artillery Sword
Item #: JSM BM
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This short artillery sword is a product of W.J. McElroy of Macon, Georgia, that produced officer's swords, navy cutlasses, and artillery short swords for the South.

The sword is copied after the US M 1832 version which was modeled after the Roman legionnaire's sword. By the Civil War era the weapon had long ceased its function as once employed by Cesar's legions and served more as a decorative artilleryman's sidearm and as a field tool for clearing brush to emplace artillery.

Some of McElroy's products bear the company's maker's identification but some do not. This example does not, but it does bear the manufacturing characteristics associated with McElroy's short swords.

This Confederate version uses a grip with concentric rings and form of pommel identifiable to McElroy of Macon, Georgia, and differentiated from similar swords made by E.J. Johnston of the same city by its use of an unfullered blade and finished recesses at the ends of the crossguard on either side. The 18 3/8 inch long blade is 1 ¾ inches at its widest. Its crude steel grey blade is also typical of McElroy's short sword blades.

The brass hilt is 5 ½ inches long and has a medium tone, darker in recesses and a bit lighter on the ridges from handling. There are light dings to the raised edges of the crossguard channel from handling and some dings on the blade peen and top of the pommel. The leather washer on the underside of the guard is long gone, leaving the blade secure, but with a slight wiggle common to most examples without their washers.

This example reveals its post war "service" as a decoration in a veteran's post--it was nickle plated over a century ago but most of it has worn off.


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