A small, simple brass or copper soldier's cross, about 1 in. tall, recovered from the site of Camp Letterman, a 500 tent hospital two miles east of Gettysburg which treated more than 14,000 Union and 6,800 Confederate wounded. The cross was originally sold with the contents of the Shields Museum in Gettysburg. The museum was on the Gettysburg battlefield, along Chambersburg Pike, near the Buford and Reynolds monuments and across from the McPherson barn. Arthur Shields was a collector of Gettysburg Civil War relics and memorabilia. He opened his museum in Gettysburg in 1925 and the museum featured many items recovered by Mr. Shields and others from the battleground. . The contents of the museum were sold in November, 1985 and most of the items are now in private collections. Obtained from a lifetime resident of Gettysburg.