CS frock coats

[Iron Scout]

Re: CS frock coats

Gents,

A picture is worth a thousand words. SC issue frock coat c. April, 1862. Note the Eagle buttons; no backmark. Anybody able to point out a pattern similarity shared by the two extant Charleston depot jackets and the supposed Lyon's Atlanta jacket???? PS-Sorry guys, could only get one image to "take"; I'll keep trying....

Enjoy,

Neill Rose
PLHA

[RangerSWB]

Re: CS frock coats

Gents,

Frock coats shown in EOG-CS, pages 128-131, attributed to 1st Sgt. J. W. Lester, 10th GA Inf (ANV), 1st Cpl. R. A. Bomar, Hampton Legion (ANV) and Pvt. John Johnston, 29th AL Inf (AOT) all show eagle buttons FWIW.

Ranger
27th VA, Co. D
Stonewall Brigade

[fedhead]

Re: CS frock coats

I am interested in the size of federal eagle buttons used on confederate frock coats , are they the size found on fatigue blouses or the size of the buttons found on the federal greatcoat ? does there seem to be a common size used on all , do the frock coats mentioned in the last post have the same size buttons .

[Jimmayo]

large or regular eagle buttons

I had the same question when getting buttons for a english army cloth RD II. I looked at this picture and several others trying to scale the size of the buttons against the coat. All I could come up with were they looked slightly bigger than a standard eagle button. I ended up using the overcoat buttons since I had enough on hand and they were old repros which are better than the ones in circulation now. They are also almost the same diameter as a script I but slightly fatter. They will fit the button holes. I was somewhat reluctant to use them as I have not found many of that size.