I have a knowledgeable comrade, a forum moderator on another site and Cavalry expert who is currently perusing the Second Volume of The Unfinished Fight, it is roughly the same length as the first. I slightly reorganized both the first volume and second for the sake of coherency, putting the "home front and civilian" material together rather than intermingled.
About that, this was an editorial decision (to intermingle) early on in the project, but re-visiting the subject matter it is not clear to me why I thought that was important, or how some subjects were relegated to the "appendices" rather than included with the other material where it fit or belonged. All I can say is sometimes I wonder about myself...and the older I get the better I used to be. Bottom line, if Vol II passes muster I will probably go ahead and submit it for publication and see it through in short order rather than holding it back for later in the year. This is largely because the first run of Volume I sold out, and will result in a nice battlefield preservation donation going to STRI and CWPT by the end of February. A new revised run of Volume I is in the works which will compliment Vol II in terms of format. Even taken together, the two volumes by no means exhaust the subject matter of Confederate material culture but they make a decent collection of essays on a variety of topics. Roughly 440 pages, en toto.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
3 Chapter One English Accoutrements
7 Chapter Two US 1841 “Mississippi Rifle”
13 Chapter Three Confederate Sutlers
17 Chapter Four The Enfield at First Manassas
23 Chapter Five Western CS Soldier with Musket
27 Chapter Six The “Jeff Davis” Hat
31 Chapter Seven Adams Revolver
35 Chapter Eight Remington Revolver
39 Chapter Nine Entertainment in Camp: Winter Quarters
43 Chapter Ten Wade Hampton
49 Chapter Eleven Pharmaceuticals and Alternative Treatments
57 Chapter Twelve Men’s Hair Styles
63 Chapter Thirteen Concerning Butter
67 Chapter Fourteen Two CS Images
81 Chapter Fifteen Tea and Tea Substitutes
85 Chapter Sixteen Shad Fishing
89 Chapter Seventeen Snuff and Tobacco
95 Chapter Eighteen 19th Century Southern Breakfast
99 Chapter Nineteen Blockade Runners
111 Chapter Twenty ParlorGuitar and Musical Material Culture
117 Chapter Twenty-one Cartridge Making at Government Arsenal
124 Chapter Twenty-two Talking the Talk
133 Chapter Twenty-three The Perfect Mint Julep
137 Chapter Twenty-four Confederate Straw-foot
141 Chapter Twenty-five CS Artillery
155 Chapter Twenty-six Marksmen
APPENDICES on US Civil War Material Culture
Page
159 Appendix One Infantry Use of Revolver
165 Appendix Two Two Birmingham Gun-makers
173 Appendix Three Invoice for Haversack, Slings and Accoutrements
175 Appendix Four Brother Jonathan
177 Appendix Five Bloodshed & Prosperity
191 Appendix Six Coffee
195 Appendix Seven Tin Can
201 Appendix Eight Early Civil War Contract Arms
