E PLURIBUS UNUM

Le fourreau de Fépée est en cuivre doré et ciselé. Il se termine par un carquois surmonté du bonnet phrygien. Sur l'un de ses côtés est gravée l'inscription suivante :

Présentée to major gênerai Lafayette by colonel Alexander M. Muir, in behalf of the officers of the ninth régiment N. F. S. artillety, lo^ September 1824, as a smalltokenofthe esteem in which he is held by them for his private worth and distinguished Services during the war which gave IN- DEPENDENCE TO THE UNITED STATES.