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Neat thing I found the other day reading Chronicles of Okla. biography of Capt. Thomas Jefferson Parks, Watie's Cherokee Mounted Vols.
"Mrs. Parks took her loom with her to Red river and they picked the seed out of the cotton by hand, carded the lint, spun it, and wove it into cloth. She made Capt. Parks a Prince Albert coat out of this homemade cloth. As they came back home after the war they traded cloth and clothes to the Creek Indians for cows."
T. J. Parks was 1/3 Cherokee and resided in Delaware Dist. Cherokee Nation I.T. as early as 1840's. He served with his brother Lt. Col. Robert C. Parks in Watie's 1st Cherokee Regt. throughout the war.
Good source for homespun civilian type Confederate clothing in the Trans-Mississippi. The Prince Albert jacket was basically a frockcoat.
I think.
"Mrs. Parks took her loom with her to Red river and they picked the seed out of the cotton by hand, carded the lint, spun it, and wove it into cloth. She made Capt. Parks a Prince Albert coat out of this homemade cloth. As they came back home after the war they traded cloth and clothes to the Creek Indians for cows."
T. J. Parks was 1/3 Cherokee and resided in Delaware Dist. Cherokee Nation I.T. as early as 1840's. He served with his brother Lt. Col. Robert C. Parks in Watie's 1st Cherokee Regt. throughout the war.
Good source for homespun civilian type Confederate clothing in the Trans-Mississippi. The Prince Albert jacket was basically a frockcoat.
I think.