I've got a new project. I'm annotating the Texas identified items in Footnote.com's "Confederate Papers," otherwise known at the National Archives as the Citizens and Business File, a huge microfilm set consisting mostly of quartermaster vouchers. It will be a long, long-term project, and Footnote.com is just over 50% finished digitizing the set. Once completed, someone should attempt a long overdue revision and expansion of _The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi_, as well as reexaminations of quartermasters across the rest of the South.
I'm currently under C. A. Bulkley, selling to A. U. Wright, captain and assistant quartermaster at Jefferson, Texas, November 6, 1862. Among the overshirts, coats, wool overcoats, jeans pants, cassimer pants, jean jackets, white kersey pants, jeans pants, military coats, military pants, white kersey coats, overcoats, and yardages of white and colored jeans, I find the following:
4 Lion skin Coats $28 [each] $112.00
Now I know that Heartsill is from nearby Marshall, but "Lion skin Coats"?? Is this slang for something more ordinary and familiar?
Vicki Betts
I'm currently under C. A. Bulkley, selling to A. U. Wright, captain and assistant quartermaster at Jefferson, Texas, November 6, 1862. Among the overshirts, coats, wool overcoats, jeans pants, cassimer pants, jean jackets, white kersey pants, jeans pants, military coats, military pants, white kersey coats, overcoats, and yardages of white and colored jeans, I find the following:
4 Lion skin Coats $28 [each] $112.00
Now I know that Heartsill is from nearby Marshall, but "Lion skin Coats"?? Is this slang for something more ordinary and familiar?
Vicki Betts
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