This is the badge of the 7th West Virginia Veterans Association.  The horseshoe on top, which contains the inscription "We Have Crossed the Mountains," is the Spottswood award.  It was named after colonial Virginia's Lt. Gov. Alexander Spottswood.  He played an important part in encouraging the settlement of Western Virginia.  The trefoil, or cloverleaf, below the red, white and blue ribbon is the symbol for the Second Army Corps, to which the 7th West Virginia belonged.  It is inscribed "7 W. VA. ROMNEY TO APPOMATTOX."  Back

Frederick W. Hawthorne, Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments as Told by Battlefield Guides (Hanover, Pa.: The Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, 1988), p. 106.