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  • #1

    Marking Knapsacks

    Comrades,

    Maybe I entered the wrong thing, but I searched and didnt find anything.

    So here goes, I was wondering if anyone knows where to get the right font or stencil for painting Unit markings on knapsacks?? I've not that steady a hand to do it freehand, so any help would be great!

    Thanks in advance!
    Robert W. Hughes
    Co A, 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters/64th Illinois Inf.
    Thrasher Mess
    Operation Iraqi Freedom II 2004-2005
    ENG Brigade, 1st Cavalry Div. "1st Team!"
    Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America

    Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
    And I said "Here I am. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8
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  • #2
    Re: Marking Knapsacks

    First search with my Apple IIc hand-crank model computer yielded 18 threads on this very subject. :(

    A search engine is a terrible thing to waste.

    Now, within your personal library, which documents explain how to mark what where and with which color?
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    • #3
      Re: Marking Knapsacks

      You're such a bad man, Chawls.
      Silas Tackitt,
      one of the moderators.

      Click here for a link to forum rules - or don't at your own peril.

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      • #4
        Re: Marking Knapsacks

        Found what I was looking for.... thanks
        Robert W. Hughes
        Co A, 2nd Georgia Sharpshooters/64th Illinois Inf.
        Thrasher Mess
        Operation Iraqi Freedom II 2004-2005
        ENG Brigade, 1st Cavalry Div. "1st Team!"
        Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America

        Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
        And I said "Here I am. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8

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        • #5
          Re: Marking Knapsacks

          Do not be afraid of freehand, that is how the old fellows did it. The EOG offers examples also. I would pose a question however. What if you belong to one unit but have to represent an other at a particular event. I hand painted my unit designation (and a fine job I would add), but as I would portray another unit more than my own I ended by blacking it out so as to fit in better.
          Pvt. Bill Garriepy, 13th Mass. Vol. Inf.

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          • #6
            Re: Marking Knapsacks

            I've found, through the years, that marking rank on anything is a mistake, too. You start as a private but sometimes you portray a corporal or sergeant or an officer, even, and the rank can look odd. I just stick with my name now on just about everything. Bring it up to Buford, I'll do it for you.

            Chris Henderson
            Chris R. Henderson

            Big'uns Mess/Black Hat Boys
            WIG/GVB
            In Memory of Wm. Davis Couch, Phillips Legion Cav. from Hall Co. GEORGIA

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            • #7
              Re: Marking Knapsacks

              Comrades,
              I have been having some touble logging on but now it is worked out.
              I had pondered this same exact question this summer. The first solution that I came up with was to only paint my company letter on my pack, "G" in my case. I reasoned that what ever unit we are portraying at a particular event, 9 times out of 10 they will have a company "G."
              However I have now have a better plan that has photographic evidence to back it up. I have seen in a book that I own National Geographic's Eyewitness To The Civil War, a pack with the initials:
              M. C. P
              G. . G
              I plan on using a variation of this that will include my first person's initials and the origonal name of my company. I am not sure why there are no periods after the last letters on each row or why there are 2 between the "G's." I was not planing on replicating that detail.
              I hope that this has helped. It is great to be back in the AC for the first time since school began this year.
              A.P. Duafala
              27th Virginia Inf.
              Co. G
              "Wheeling's own Shriver Greys"

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