bone buttons on shell jackets?

[RyanBWeddle]

Re: southern button production

both Serio & Childs offer great replicas -
here is a tidbit from Serio's site referencing production at Columbus Depot:

“While on an inspecting tour in Columbus, Ga. in the winter of 1862-63, I was informed that wooden, horn and bone buttons were being manufactured there, and I visited the plant. The factory was owned by a former lieutenant of the Confederate army, who had lost an arm in one of the early battles.

The motive power of his factory was an engine of moderate horsepower that had been used to run a printing press. So complete were the saws, borers, and drying kilns that in the final process of their manufacture the completed buttons dropped into the hoppers with as much rapidity as nails from a nail making machine.”
Dr. S.H. Stout, Medical Director of Hospitals
from Confederate Veteran Magazine

[roundshot]

Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

Bob

Do you have the publishing info on this? Is it still in print?

Thanks.

I believe it to be out of print but available on the secondary market. Here's at least one place that has it:http://theoldentimes.com/civil_war_books.html
Pricey, but well worth it.

Bob Williams

[LocalOaf]

Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

I believe it to be out of print but available on the secondary market. Here's at least one place that has it:http://theoldentimes.com/civil_war_books.html
Pricey, but well worth it.

Bob Williams

I called over to Historic Publications this morning and was told that Volume I is still in print.

Regards,

Dan Brennan

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

Bob and Dan¨

Thank you.

[Masked Battery]

Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

"And then there is the report of the Savannah QM in 11/63 having on hand Richmond jackets with wooden buttons, which he described as "inferior articles" compared to jackets of English cloth. "

This citation might be misleading. We puzzled over it for awhile after finding it in Savannah. Several believe the Richmond jackets referred to here might be from Richmond Co. Georgia, a huge textile producer during war, both looms and finished goods. Anyone have evidence of clothing coming South from Richmond, VA to Georgia?

Greg Starbuck

Greg, I think you're right. If I remember correctly, the words used in the record were something like "jackets from the Richmond factory" as opposed to "jackets from Richmond."