A Soldier’s Long-lost Civil War Ring Is Returned To His Family In Pennsylvania

Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post: Local
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 3:27pm

Who knows how Pvt. Levi Schlegel lost his identity ring? The finger ring bearing his name, company and regiment — a Civil War version of a dog tag -- was found near Fredericksburg, a place Schlegel had only passed through on his way home a month after the war ended.

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