 The Southern Cross of Honor. Bronze. Choice About Uncirculated. Belden (War Medals of the Confederacy, p. 9). Named to Jno. Ingram, M.D. With engraved hanger. The SCH was instituted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1898 as an award to equal Britain's Victoria Cross or Germany's Iron Cross. Belden remarks that the first crosses were distributed in 1900 to the number of around 2,500. He goes on to say that ''...it is almost impossible to obtain a specimen, so highly are they valued by those who possess them.''
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Estate.
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