Unknown County ScArchives Military Records.....Mattison, Benjamnin F. September 29, 1883
Mexican Palmetto Regiment
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Adventures Of A Medal
"The Jacksonville Republican"
Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, SEPTEMBER 29, 1883

ADVENTURES OF A MEDAL

Following the Mexican War, the state of South Carolina distributed silver 
medals to members of the immortal Palmetto Regiment, among others, to the 
family of Benj. F. MATTISON, a member of the regiment who fell at 
Chepultepe. This was carefully preserved by the family, but during the late 
Civil War, a Federal soldier plundered the residence of Mrs. BROWNLEE, in 
this county, and among other things, carried off the medal. Thus, it 
remained lost nearly twenty years. Some two months ago, the Adjutant General 
of South Carolina received notice from a jeweler in Nashville that he had 
the medal, which he had bought for old silver. The Adjutant General 
purchased it of the jeweler at once, and set about to find the proper 
parties to whom he should return it. Through Gabe MATTISON of South 
Carolina, he learned that LaFayette MATTISON of this place was the party to 
whom it should go, and a few days ago, it reached him, and one of the best 
railroad men in the South now carries with him this badge of honorable 
distinction of a gallant kinsman.

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