After the battle of San Jacinto Sydney Sherman was responsible for allocating the Mexican Army's captured arms, supplies, and useful property to Texan soldiers. For himself, Sherman kept one of Santa Anna's saddles, liberally decorated with silver. He had the silver melted down and remade into keepsakes for his family and close friends. He gave a napkin ring to his wife, Catherine Isabel Sherman. The ring is engraved with her initials and "San Jacinto." He gave a similarly engraved napkin ring to a family friend, Mrs. Saville Fenwick Harris. The soup ladle was given to an unknown person with the initials L. B. C.
The fork is simply engraved "San Jacinto S."
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