Geoff Walden's Columbus Depot Jacket Article

[teufelhund]

I was looking to re-read Geoff Walden's Columbus Depot Jacket Article, but the link on this forum is gone. Cannot find it through an internet search. Would someone have a link to the article or is it a dead subject?

[Eric Tipton]

Marc:

That article link disappeared and I have been looking for it as well. We have no e-mail for Geoff. I'll take a shot at contacting him through FB.

[Eric Tipton]

Marc:

Found by Silas: https://web.archive.org/web/20060210...d/cdjacket.htm

[Silas]

I possess a hardcopy of the article from the old Third Mississippi Camp of Instruction (1998). As the pictures are photocopies of photocopies, the quality of the pictures is not so good.

The Third Mississippi manual has many solid articles. The one which precedes it in the manual is Les Jensen's articles on depot jackets. Here's the link to the one which discusses CD, Alabama, and other nonANV jackets :

http://military-historians.org/company/journal/confederate/confederate-3.htm

[SammyBeans]

My sincerest thanks to the person who archived it. Unfortunately, it seems the image links are broken. Does anyone have them archived in some form, I was using this article for reference whilst working on a W&W CD kit.


Samuel Bounds

[floridawar]

Some links with other images of surviving garments of this type, and some of the images evidently captured from Mr. Walden's article in the past:

D.F.C. Weller jacket, 2nd KY:
Uniform, Military (pastperfectonline.com)

E.C Woodward jacket image, 9th KY:

Uniform, Military (pastperfectonline.com)

James S. Wise, Co. G, 41st GA regiment jacket, captured at Atlanta, '64:
Pin on Confederate (pinterest.com)

A close up of Wise's jacket, by Phil Graf:
Pin on Confederate (pinterest.com)

A.W. Randolph jacket, 6th KY;
Uniform - 1930.2.1 (pastperfectonline.com)

Jenkins jacket, Breckinridge Guards..
Uniforms - Columbus Depot jacket | Ranks, Uniforms, Clothing, & Gear (civilwartalk.com)

Michael J. Jones, 1st MO jacket,
Galla Rock Shirt & Pattern Co. Views of an Original Columbus Depot / Army of Tennessee Shell Jacket

Oklahoma State Museum jacket:
Sutler-Galla Rock Oklahoma Mystery Jacket

John McDonnell jacket, 1st Miss. Lt. arty.;
1960.16.3-ColumbusDepotJacket-resized.jpg (573×947) (ms.gov)

Some images from Mr. Walden's Orphan Brigade page:
Uniforms of the Orphan Brigade(2) (rootsweb.com)

Some of the period photographs of such from Mr. Walden's missing article are reproduced on this thread (post #4):
Columbus Depot Jackets at non trans mississippi events | Reenactors Forum - Join, Drill, See the Elephant (civilwartalk.com)


And finally, at the bottom of this page are some images I believe were employed on Mr. Walden's Columbus Depot jacket article. I believe the bottom-most image is the Atkins jacket, 49th Tenn., worn at Franklin, with the hard-rubber buttons:
Confederate Uniforms (rootsweb.com)

J. Marshall,
Hernando, FL

[floridawar]

Here's an interesting image, by Samuel J. Reader of the 2nd Kansas Militia (US), of one of Sterling Price's buglers at the Battle of Mine Creek, Kansas, wearing what appears something like the "Columbus" depot jacket, or what Mr. Walden preferred to call the western army jacket; at least in the depiction of the branch-trimmed cuff, etc. The image is one of many interesting one made by Reader, in the collections of the Kansas Historical Society.
Samuel J. Reader's autobiography, volume 3 - Kansas Memory