Kentucky jeans seized by Bragg during Kentucy Campaign 1862

[Fred Adolphus]

I am looking for some documentation on the Kentucky jeans that Bragg seized during the Kentucky Campaign and brought South. What happened to all the cloth?

This much I have found: 27,000 yards were sent to Augusta in about November 1862 to have made into uniforms. What about the rest? Robert Serio says that Bragg took 400,000 yards of cloth out of Kentucky. There is a book that touches on this: The Camp, the Bivouac and the Battlefield by Washington Lafayette Gammage. Does someone have any quotes from the book that are relevant to the Kentucky jeans. The book is hard to come by now.

Thanks, Fred Adolphus

[PenPusher]

Re: Kentucky jeans seized by Bragg during Kentucy Campaign 1862

Fred,

Rebel war clerk J.B. Jones recorded that Bragg "succeeded in getting away with the largest amount of provisions, clothing, etc., ever obtained by an army, including 8,000 beef cattle, 50,000 barrels of pork, and a million yards of Kentucky cloth."

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields...mpossible.html
This article was written by Frank van der Linden and originally published in the November/December 2006 issue of Civil War Times Magazine.

The General Bragg papers including his letter books are at http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view...;brand=default , they may have some information.

[Fred Adolphus]

Re: Kentucky jeans seized by Bragg during Kentucy Campaign 1862

Alan, Thanks for the info. Much appreciated, Fred