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Currency - Coins in the Confederacy | Currency, Stamps, other . . . The Confederates made very little coins during the Civil War, but it's a bit more complicated than that The U S had 5 mints around the country that they were using, so when the Confederacy came to be, they took over 3 of them, most notably in New Orleans The Confederates started making coins
Civil War Era Knives | Small Arms Ammunition Does anyone have in their collection the humble pocketknife from CW times? I'd like to see them, even if they're repros or custom-made modern ones I think this simple tool was one of the most useful for all What about "bowies"? Where they really used? I've seen pictures from the early war
Christopher Roby, Swordmaker and CO Troop F, Mass Volunteers In addition to swords made by other manufacturers, military "volunteers" were offered a wide selection of Roby weapons that would have included N C O ,Musician, Horse Artillery, and Cavalry swords for enlisted personnel; a Foot Infantry Officer sword, model 1850; and large bowie-knives with inspiring brass, eagle-head pommels
Where did all the wood come for musket stocks come from? Any good hard wood could be used, which included sugar maple, red maple, cherry, apple, pear and sometimes ash and butternut (for southern rifles) French muskets followed the walnut trail as did most others, but Austrian rifles (Lorenz) could sometimes be made of elm and some German and Belgian rifles had beech stocks
Recipes for the Civil War Soldier | Foods Recipes Found this online: "The actual Southern battlefield "cornbread" was made by stirring one's corn meal directly into salt pork grease to make a sticky paste, twirling your bayonet around in the mix until it clung to the bayonet, and then toasting the mix on the bayonet over a fire You put a short stick into the portion of the bayonet which fits over the rifle to make a handle, to avoid burning
Best Places to Purchase Appropriate Fabrics? Confederate uniforms were generally made from jeans, cassimere, or kersey, in that order (though from mid-1863 onwards huge quantities of cadet-grey kersey were imported from Britain and used- it seems- primarily for jackets) other wool cotton fabrics were also used to some extent
C. S. A. domestically-made revolvers | Small Arms Ammunition There were other C S A domestic manufacturers of pistols of course, smaller than the four outfits named above For example there was Dance Brothers (of Galveston, Texas) which made a 44-cal pistol that looked like this Elsewhere in Texas the Tucker Sherrod company was making 44-cal Dragoon revolvers like these And in still another part of Texas (Sisterdale) the Sisterdale Dragoon 44
Real Confederate Bowie Knives - American Civil War Forums I made a measured drawing of two of the knives at the Coastal Museum for a knife smith in our local blacksmith forge One of them was a utility knife very similar to the Green River multi use knife above The "Bowie Knife" was exactly the same blade with a clip point Makes sense, a manufacturer would have no reason not to simplify the production
Case Shot or Canister? - American Civil War Forums Most case-shot was made of lead, both north and south Later in the War when lead supplies were short, the Confederacy switched to iron case-shot balls Most all canister consisted of iron balls Thanks! Great explanation that even I can understand Now on to "shells" - I got the ones that were hollow cannonballs with powder inside
The story of Ivory Soap - American Civil War Forums The air actually made the soap lighter than water, causing it to float Proter and Gamble thus marketed Ivory as the "Soap that Floats" As the decades followed, Procter and Gamble continued to develop many products, but Ivory Soap remains in production today and is prehaps, the company's most well-known product