Georgia Shell

[GAvol]

Dose anyone have more information or pictures of this shell?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piedmont_fossil/7134251575/

Tried Google with no luck.

Thanks

[Silas]

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Ask Iowan Brandon Jolly about it. He likely has some information about it because he reproduced one :

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?34945-quot-Des-Moines-quot-Confederate-Shell-Jacket-for-sale

[Brian Baird]

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I looked at this jacket with Brandon. The providence the museum has on it is incomplete. They said it was picked up during the Atlanta Campaign by an Iowa Cav unit (don't remember the name) but they were serving in western TN during the Atlanta campaign.
This jacket is very similiar to the one on Fred Adolphus's site

http://www.adolphusconfederateuniforms.com/c-wrights-uniform.html

Brian Baird

[Cumpston1862]

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Marc-

Silas is right. Hopefully Brandon Jolly will see your post and chime in about this jacket.

Brian is also right the Iowa Historical Society's information is vague on this jacket.

I do have another view of this same jacket taken a little more from the side.

[GAvol]

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Thank y' all.

[Texas Pard]

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Is anything known about the cartridge box, sling and belt?

Weldon Svoboda

[csuniforms]

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Is this close? This is from an Atlanta Georgia estate-- unidentified but the jacket looks similar

Tom Arliskas
CS uniforms

[roundshot]

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These too. Also Georgians.

[brown]

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Of course what I am about to say is based on conversations with Brandon.

I thought this jacket was picked up in Atlanta afterthe fall of the city. There are a pair of wooden shoe soles picked up in 1865 by an Iowa cavalryman now in the Atlanta History Center's collection.

[Citizen_Soldier]

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Greetings,

According to correspondance with a staff member of the State Historical Society of Iowa, the brief artifact description states that the jacket was acquired by a soldier with the 4th Iowa Cavalry around Atlanta.

As others have stated, the 4th Iowa Cavalry was not present for the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. However, elements of the regiment were involved in Wilson's raid into Alabama and Georgia in early 1865. Targets of this raid included the Confederate supply areas of Selma (AL), Macon (GA), and Columbus (GA). Following the raid, the regiment was stationed in Atlanta, GA where they were mustered out in August of 1865.

Based on my research, I feel that the Confederate jacket in the SHSI collection could have construction origins to Georgia. As the museum description states, it could very well have been acquired in Atlanta with garment construction having occured there or at one of the other uniform manufacturing facilties in the area. There is also possibly a chance that it was picked up by the soldier in Selma, Macon, or Columbus on his way back to Atlanta; as there was a large amount of war trophies and prisoners taken during this period by Wilson's command.

There are others who study Confederate jackets more than I do and it would be great to hear their thoughts.

Derek Orwig

[Cumpston1862]

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Is anything known about the cartridge box, sling and belt?

Weldon Svoboda

I don't believe the cartridge box, sling and belt are associated with the jacket other than they are all local Southern manufactured items and put together for the display.

I am supposed to be meeting with someone from the Iowa Historical Society on another matter in the next couple of days and hopefully I will have an opportunity to bring this up.

[Cumpston1862]

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Is anything known about the cartridge box, sling and belt?

Weldon Svoboda

Weldon-

I finally had an opportunity to speak with the person at the Iowa Historical Society. This person I spoke with believed the cartridge box came from the Parker House Collection in Iowa City originally. I am unfamiliar with that collection to be quite honest. She also recommended contacting Mary Bennett with the Special Collections section of the Iowa Historical Society for additional information about the belt and cartridge box. Please see the link below for the website with her email address. Good luck!

http://www.iowahistory.org/contact-list.html