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Good question. I tried to blow them up with my old photo inhancer program, but it didnt help. They do not appear to be state or CS issued. The middle button appears to be dark, as if made of wood or gutta percha. The also appear to be "dished". I posted a thread awhile back about a wounded CS Vet who was manufactoring buttons for soldiers because he said there was a lack of them. However he was making bone and wood buttons. Maybe these are not brass or maybe they are a civie brass style.
excellent photo,
everett taylor
The Historical documentation is there as well. They even have a few pics!
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=DarkSlateGray][SIZE=3]Michael Phillips, GGG Grandson of
Pvt Edmond Phillips, 44th NCT, Co E, "The Turtle Paws"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Mustered in March 1862
Paroled at Appomattox C.H. Virginia, April 15, 1865[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=Navy][B]"Good, now we'll have news from Hell before breakfast."[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]
Was Gen Sherman's response upon hearing the capture and execution of 3 reporters who had followed from Atlanta, by the rebels.
The execution part turned out to be false.[COLOR=DarkRed] [B]Dagg Nabbit![/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
The buttons seem odd to me. But that's really not the best thing about this image. Can you guess the type jacket? NO- it's NOT a Type 2.
Here is some history on this soldier. From "Portraits In Conflict" by Richard McCaslin,....page 57;
"To complete the organization of some North Carolina commands, units from other states were sometimes included. Wharton J. Green was given the authority to raise a regiment in 1861, but this proved impossible. He had to settle for a commission as a lieutenant colonel in command of eight companies, three of which were not from North Carolina, collectively known as the 2d Battallion, North Carolina Infantry.
Green's troops were captured on Roanoke Island in February 1862, then exchanged and returned to duty, without Green, by the fall of that year. Assigned to Brig. Gen. Junius Daniel's brigade, they fought at New Bern and Washington, NC in early 1863, then joined the Army of Northern Virginia. At Gettysburg, two thirds of the battalion were killed or wounded.
Among those left at Gettysburg as prisoners was Pvt. J. Ransom Seay(pictured), a Georgian in Company D of the 2d Battalion. A native of Dawson County, Seay enlisted at the age of twenty-three in the Cherokee Georgia Mountaineers in July 1861. They had no formal assignment at Richmond in September 1861, so a portion, including Seay, became Company D. They suffered the indignity of capture at Roanoke Island, but returned to the 2d Battalion. In 1863 Seay was sent to Fort McHenry, then to Fort Delaware, whence he was released in June 1865(more than a year after his company joined the 21st Georgia Infantry). This portrait was made at Dawsonville in 1861."
He died on June 10, 1877, at Benton, Geogia, at the age of 38.
Originally posted by Curt-Heinrich SchmidtView Post
Hallo!
I would not think that black gutta percha/thermoplastic type buttons would appear so light, nor would the "dished" center be as pronounced.
Curt
Actually, while perusing thru the Ebay mega site, I came upon some gutta percha (hard rubber) buttons for sale. It was a mixed variety. One of those buttons was a dished button that looked exactly like the wooden buttons we see on uniform examples today. Perhaps the wooden buttons were a cheap knockoff for the gutta percha buttons of the day. Also, some of them were not so black, but almost brownish in color.
everett taylor
Jordan,
appareantly you didn't look at the MB&S page witht the generic CS wooden buttons. It should change your mind. The following was copied from the MBS button page:
THE ULTIMATE CONFEDERATE BUTTON
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FROM
MISSOURI BOOT AND SHOE CO
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 in Confederate Veteran Magazine.
Our button making machines are not quite so rapid as the originals but they do produce one of the finest reproductions of wooden, recessed center, two hole Confederate wooden buttons. These buttons compare favorably with the originals often seen on the mystery jacket and other depot produced Confederate jackets. They seem to have been distributed from the Trans-Mississippi to the Atlantic coast. Our reproductions are made from kiln-dried native hardwoods with an oil finish in their natural color that compares very well with the original specimens
It fits into your time frame and location of GA. The oil finish gives them a sheen in the light. As far a the jacket I can't hazzard a guess. 9 button front could be one of several jackets.
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=DarkSlateGray][SIZE=3]Michael Phillips, GGG Grandson of
Pvt Edmond Phillips, 44th NCT, Co E, "The Turtle Paws"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Mustered in March 1862
Paroled at Appomattox C.H. Virginia, April 15, 1865[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=Navy][B]"Good, now we'll have news from Hell before breakfast."[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]
Was Gen Sherman's response upon hearing the capture and execution of 3 reporters who had followed from Atlanta, by the rebels.
The execution part turned out to be false.[COLOR=DarkRed] [B]Dagg Nabbit![/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
"One of the liveliest rows I had while in the service was with the quartermaster for filling a requisition that I made for shoes for my company, on the theory that no shoe was too large for a Negro, and he gave me all 10's and upwards. When I returned the shoes, informing him that my soldiers did not wear pontoons, he insisted that I should take them and issue them to my company anyway. Well, I didn't do it: consequently the row."
-Robert Beecham 2nd Wisconsin/23rd USCT
It looks like one rubber, and the rest wood to me.
Thaddaeus Dolzall
Liberty Hall Volunteers
We began to think that Ritchie Green did a very smart thing, when we left Richmond, to carry nothing in his knapsack but one paper collar and a plug of tobacco!
If the jacket in the picture is not an RD II it certainly resembles one.[/QUOTE
This jacket Seay is wearing was obviously issued to him while a recruit in Georgia, 1861. By Les Jensen's outstanding article naming Depot Type jackets, it would then specifically eliminate this jacket from RD II status as Type 2's were not made until early 1862.
Was the garment made in Athens, Columbus, or somewhere else?
Could be eight bone buttons and one wood or horn button too. The bone buttons should appear as a light color and the wood or horn would appear dark depending onthe the type of wood or horn they were made of.
Last edited by Prodical Reb; 02-26-2008, 12:29 PM.
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=DarkSlateGray][SIZE=3]Michael Phillips, GGG Grandson of
Pvt Edmond Phillips, 44th NCT, Co E, "The Turtle Paws"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Mustered in March 1862
Paroled at Appomattox C.H. Virginia, April 15, 1865[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=Navy][B]"Good, now we'll have news from Hell before breakfast."[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]
Was Gen Sherman's response upon hearing the capture and execution of 3 reporters who had followed from Atlanta, by the rebels.
The execution part turned out to be false.[COLOR=DarkRed] [B]Dagg Nabbit![/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
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