Badge of the Women's Auxiliary Corps of Veterans of the American Civil War

The original medal (badge) with the "AID" bar is in excellent collector's condition. Bronze, stamping. The sign on the original tape. Guarantee of authenticity. Rare.

During the American Civil War, a large number of women tried to help soldiers: from helping the wounded and sick on the battlefield and in hospitals to supporting widows and orphans after the fighting. Millions of dollars were raised and spent, but thousands of lives were saved thanks to the direct mediation of patriotic and devoted women of the North during the four years of war. A decade passed, and a financial crisis broke out in the country, so that old wounds, lack of work and bitter disappointments began to severely devastate the ranks of veterans. Hundreds of orphans begged for bread, hundreds of women in widow's weeds walked the streets in search of work on behalf of soldiers' husbands, but there was none. In July 1881, the 15th National Congress of the "Grand Army of the Republic" adopted a pair of resolutions approving the creation of the "External National Women's Aid Corps." The corps was organized in Denver, Colorado, on July 25 and 26, 1883, as the "Women's Relief Corps, Auxiliary Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic." It was registered in September 1922 as the "National Women's Aid Corps".