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I am looking for any research on the federal issue axe cover. I know there is a mention to in in Lords, but I don't know what it looked like. Thanks.
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Last edited by estephenson; 08-05-2009, 11:18 AM.Eric Stephenson
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Re: Axe Cover
Eric,
Steve Sylvia has one on his site. You might want to send him an email to see if he has any more info on these as he states he has seen them in photos. He's got a spade cover on there too. They're about halfway down the page:
http://www.jsmosby.com/cgi-bin/Displ...p?Cat=6&Sub=24Bill Lomas
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Thanks Bill.Eric Stephenson
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Eric here is one that belonged to Private William S. Hine unk Regiment I don't know if it is federal issue. Interesting anyway. thought you would like to see it.
http://www.prin.edu/upper/museum/website/XX83_12_3.htm
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Eric, if you can find out if there is a piece of leather stitched enveloped in the cover at the head of the axe I was very intersted in getting any data about it. There is some written info in the never published QM manual 1865 but without drawings or pictures it is misleading in some places.Jan H.Berger
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Jan, in looking at the photo that Bill had posted it looks as though it is a doubled piece of leather to create an envelope with a side piece to widen the left side. Look below the buckle and the stitching changes slightly. The strapping looks like it is the same as the spade cover and both covers were possibly produced through the same contractors. The one Pete posted looks to be a civilian cover. This one appears to have a leather insert in the left side of the cover, but none at the point.Last edited by estephenson; 08-06-2009, 08:28 AM.Eric Stephenson
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To Eric & anyone else interested in Pioneers:
I'd recommend picking up a copy of the Manual for the Instruction of Civil War Pioneer Troops by James Lancel McElhinney. I wish I had the Chimborazzo Medical Museum's copy in front of me, but as I recall, there's a good bit about the dimensions of axe covers and etc.Jason C. Spellman
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