African American battalion medal from American Civil War comes to auction in Wiltshire
This rare award, a Colored Troops Medal or Butler Medal of 1864, comes for sale at the Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour Militaria at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on September 23 with an estimate of £8000-12,000.
Struck at the Philadelphia Mint and mounted by Bigelow & Kennard of Boston, these medals were is…