Pards,
While reading Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier- 1861-1866 , I came across an interesting reference to white india rubber on p. 56 of that memoir which reads, "T. Harry Oliver, who had joined us as a volunteer private, left his knapsack one night on the fire and smoke escape flue, during one of these conflagrations and a fine roll of white india rubber, which he has bought from Maryland, sufficient for many blankets, was scorched through and ruined." Obviously, this particular roll was scorched during a run in with a heating element in winter quarters, but I'm curious if anyone has run across an extant example of white india rubber blankets for actual use in the C.S. army, or for any other use for that matter?
Yer pard,
-Nicholas Redding
While reading Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier- 1861-1866 , I came across an interesting reference to white india rubber on p. 56 of that memoir which reads, "T. Harry Oliver, who had joined us as a volunteer private, left his knapsack one night on the fire and smoke escape flue, during one of these conflagrations and a fine roll of white india rubber, which he has bought from Maryland, sufficient for many blankets, was scorched through and ruined." Obviously, this particular roll was scorched during a run in with a heating element in winter quarters, but I'm curious if anyone has run across an extant example of white india rubber blankets for actual use in the C.S. army, or for any other use for that matter?
Yer pard,
-Nicholas Redding
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