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Ross and Steve are spot on. In my own area of operations, The Savannah Squadron, things were pretty slipshod as well. one account indicates that white shirts and brown trousers were issued to at...

Oberstabsgefrieter??? LOL

Oops meant to attach this pic

http://www.discountknivesandswords.com/ImagesProductsLarge/210943.jpg

Ross, as usual, is absolutely spot on... further, if not secured by a lanyard, and if they had a point, if dropped from aloft, well..................lets just say I wouldnt want to be on the Spar...

WOW, maybe cause it was just to florida but I shipped a 1795 Springfield for around $40... but then, I also shipped from a UPS hub in Savannah.

Comes down to time and place on that fixed blade knife.... they were not permitted aboard ships of the Confederate Navy, according to Article 43 of the Regulations for the Navy of the Confederate...

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Thought alot of the questions were answered before.....

Congrats Ross & Amber! Y'all make a fine family... ya coming up to Savannah in Sept??

Anyone wanna try and pitch in and get this,and do a few minor defarbs??

http://i.usatoday.net/news/gallery/2010/n100820_day/06-pg-horizontal.jpg

C'mon fellers, whaddya say?

In all...

http://www.civilwarvirtualmuseum.org/1861-1862/actions-in-fall-and-early/uss-st-louis-sailors.php

http://www.civilwarvirtualmuseum.org/1861-1862/actions-in-fall-and-early/uss-st-louis-sailors.php...

Forgot to post a source

http://www.navyandmarine.org/historicalref/csn_uniforms/index.htm

The Confederate Navy : the ships, men, and organization, 1861-65
Still, William N.

The Best Station of Them All: The Savannah Squadron, 1861-65 Melton, Maurice.


Just two of the books I...

After reporting on board the C.S.S. Savannah Watson drew a hammock, clothes bag, two flannel shirts, one pair of pants, one cap, and one mattress from the paymaster. A month later he drew a pair of...

What they were supposed to look like
Regulations established in 1862 for the enlisted personnel of the Confederate States Navy were the same regulations adopted by the U.S. navy in 1859, except that...

Excerpts from an Article by John Kennington on the Savannah Squadron

The Navy Department instructed Bulloch, in May 1861, to purchase, without insignia, "cloth or cassinette pants, shoes, cloth...

One word CAVALRY

Note that the title says Ballads? these would be the forebitters and fo'c'sle songs. What must be kept in mind was that the deep water navy of the Confederate Navy, while garnering great public...

Site about songs about the Alabama http://www.marshall.edu/library/speccoll/virtual_museum/css_alabama/music_menu.asp

One thing to keep in mind, Chanties were not sung on CS warships, much as they...

I have not seen anything at least amongst the Savannah Squadron so far........ when they burned the ships here, they were in a bit of a hurry, so I doubt they worried about things like Belaying pins,...

But.... according to Maurice Melton..... the ate pretty dern well compared to their counterparts not only in the Navy, but Army as well.

The were also the man power pool for Charleston.... everytime Charleston needed men they drew on Savannah, at one point they had drawn so significant an amount that one ship, the Isondiga spent more...

Cool! A new one to add to my ever growing naval/Savannah Squadron library!!

In everything I have found on the Savannah Squadron and the Savannah station, liberty ashore was not unusual. However, I highly doubt a captain or 1st Luff would allow a sailor to take a part of the...

June 4th 2013

Time TBD

If anyone happens to be in the Savannah area on this date, James P. Delgado, PHD, Director of Maritime Heritage, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA will...