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And the slats were good for storage. My mother found one in a old junk shop that had rolled up letters from the woman's family flattened and slipped into the slat pockets.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.04012/

http://shootists.websitetoolbox.com/post/Modern-Tintype-6233688

You might also shoot a email to the folks at Fort Gibson OK. They have a lot of activities around the Mexican-American war. Many uniforms, equipment. etc.
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You might contact these folks. "Mic" and his wife worked for the Oklahoma historical society and he worked at Fort Gibson for several years. He has lot of knowledge about the war and the pre war...

http://www.focusers.com/mcallister.html

http://www.lafittesblacksmithshop.com

Been there long before the war.

Great collection of vests and all assorted clothing items.



http://pinterest.com/sarajrivers/

Good photo for hats, shirts, boots.


http://www.shorpy.com/node/3173?size=_original#caption

Maybe that's the answer to all of us old farts trying to reenact young soldiers. We can just change over to being old farts reenacting old farts doing post civil war reunions. Just think of the...

Just to help with a argument on a non CW board..but. Are there any historical references to, or examples of, leather frock coats military or civilian during the 1860 period? Have not found one yet,...

And the fact that all "H" would break loose along your breastwork of horses when they started taking rounds. I doubt any horse is going to quietly lay there and "take several for the team". Once...

My wife and I toured Shiloh at the first of the month. My GGGrandfather was killed at the battle. We had a chance to follow the movements of his unit, Chalmers Brigade, up the confederate right...

Pat Obriens

Google it for images, you will find several of the guns.

Olmsted did his tour in 1853 and 54. From these trips he wrote 3 books titled Seaboard Slave States, Texas, and Back Country. When the war broke out there were many in England that were straddling...

Working my way through "The Cotton Kingdom" by Fredrick Olmsted. This is basically a Northerners walking tour of the South in 1855. Olmsted was a young successful farmer from the North who...

Hank: Your peanut thread dead ended. Would love to read the posts.

Ground nuts, 1870. This also could have been:...

Good time to get a subscription, or watch the magazine racks. For the next four years they will be doing articles on the war, the battles, etc. This months issued is Fort Sumter.

Good link to history of the "anglo" or "anglo-german" concertina. It would be historically accurate, but weather you would have one in camp goes back to the basic question of:
Would a soldier on...

That should help me answer that argument. I also sent a email to the folks at Ohio State, hopefully I will get a good historical context answer that might assist both civilian and history buffs. I...

This is about a argument going on at western reenactors forum. But: Was the one piece "Union Suit" a undergarment known during the CW. On one stating "a short history of the union suit" it states:...

http://calcol2011.4thuscok.org/calcolH.html

Good event to check out if you are in the area. Look through the Guide Lines at the requirement for equipment, rations, etc. Very good event, wish I...

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.00888/?co=cwp

On the high res photo's you can find that two of these soldiers and hobnails and/or tacks. Neither has a pattern, they just go around the...

I have seen several books depicting "scouts and guides" and a couple of online references.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5710?size=_original

I was wondering how prevalent these civilian and/or...

The Register documenting the fact that GGrandad failed to duck low enough at the battle or Shiloh. For those interested in a Killed, Wounded, Missing Form
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