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  • #16
    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
    Ryan B.Weddle

    7th New York State Militia

    "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes" - Henry David Thoreau

    "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their country."
    – George Washington , 1789

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    • #17
      Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

      Originally posted by hireddutchcutthroat
      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
      Bob Williams
      26th North Carolina Troops
      Blogsite: http://26nc.org/blog/

      As [one of our cavalry] passed by, the general halted him and inquired "what part of the army he belonged to." "I don't belong to the army, I belong to the cavalry." "That's a fact," says [the general], "you can pass on." Silas Grisamore, 18th Louisiana

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      • #18
        Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

        Originally posted by roundshot
        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

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        • #19
          Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

          Bob and Dan¨

          Thank you.
          Robert Johnson

          "Them fellers out thar you ar goin up against, ain't none of the blue-bellied, white-livered Yanks and sassidge-eatin'forrin' hirelin's you have in Virginny that run atthe snap of a cap - they're Western fellers, an' they'll mighty quick give you a bellyful o' fightin."



          In memory of: William Garry Co.H 5th USCC KIA 10/2/64 Saltville VA.

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          • #20
            Re: bone buttons on shell jackets?

            Originally posted by Canebrake Rifle Guards
            "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."
            [SIZE=1]Neal W. Sexton[/SIZE]

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