Gentlemen,
A friend of mine (I do have them) is doing some post-doctoral research and has asked for some help finding some primary sources.
She is looking for information on what percentage of recruits brought personally owned weapons to war in 1861. According to Keri, " I am trying to put together a proposal for a legal history grant to examine gun laws/ownership in a slave society. This is a new topic for me, but I thought that that information would be really helpful. Trying to determine how widespread gun ownership is via probate records (like Clayton Cramer's research) excludes almost all poor men, and I had hoped that the personal firearm/militia connection may help not only in determining how widespread ownership was, but also in understanding the quality and age of the weapons owned."
Any help would be greatly appreciated and you'll probably get mentioned in her next book. Thanks in Advance.
A friend of mine (I do have them) is doing some post-doctoral research and has asked for some help finding some primary sources.
She is looking for information on what percentage of recruits brought personally owned weapons to war in 1861. According to Keri, " I am trying to put together a proposal for a legal history grant to examine gun laws/ownership in a slave society. This is a new topic for me, but I thought that that information would be really helpful. Trying to determine how widespread gun ownership is via probate records (like Clayton Cramer's research) excludes almost all poor men, and I had hoped that the personal firearm/militia connection may help not only in determining how widespread ownership was, but also in understanding the quality and age of the weapons owned."
Any help would be greatly appreciated and you'll probably get mentioned in her next book. Thanks in Advance.
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