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For those interested in Trans-Miss depot issues, there is an interesting image published in the 2007 Confederate Calendar (the image in question being from the collection of Lawrence T. Jones III). It strikes me that it could be an example of what I have termed the 'Texas Contract Blouse', viz:
Aside from regimentally contracted commutation jackets, the first Texas general issue coat appears to have been a ‘blowse’ or sackcoat. It was said in quartermaster clothing issue reports to have been made of ‘white woolens’ and to have included matching trousers (Adolphus 1996: 172). Such ‘white woolens’ would have been supplied by the Huntsville Penitentiary, where white woolen and cotton jeans, as well as white kerseys were abundantly manufactured. These outfits may even have comprised the ‘white grave clothes’ issued to the 2nd Texas infantry on the eve of Shiloh. Chance (1984:24) describes the arrival of these “bundles of white wool uniforms” -- though he implies that they were requisitioned from New Orleans. This type of short-lived fatigue blouse, contracted for with out-workers by Capt. Wharton of the nascent Houston Depot, probably ceased manufacture by the end of 1862. This ‘type’ might best be termed the ‘Texas Contract Blouse’.
(from unpublished article by KC MacDonald, available on the web at http://www.nsalliance.org/uniforms/texaslouisianajackets.pdf)
The pictured blouse may not be 'white woolens', but it could well be Huntsville 'Sheep Gray' wool jean cloth, which was also manufactured at the Penitentiary.
The image in question is of Private David E. Stanton, Co D, 16th Texas Infantry, Walker's Division, and would have been made shortly after his enlistment in May, 1862.
Opinions?
KC MacDonald
Founding Member Lazy Jacks Mess
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Proud Galveston BOI (Born on Island)
Gr-Gr Grandson of 5 Confederates (and one Yankee...)
Currently residing in an ex-Tailoring Sweatshop built in Huntingdon, England in 1851
Aside from regimentally contracted commutation jackets, the first Texas general issue coat appears to have been a ‘blowse’ or sackcoat. It was said in quartermaster clothing issue reports to have been made of ‘white woolens’ and to have included matching trousers (Adolphus 1996: 172). Such ‘white woolens’ would have been supplied by the Huntsville Penitentiary, where white woolen and cotton jeans, as well as white kerseys were abundantly manufactured. These outfits may even have comprised the ‘white grave clothes’ issued to the 2nd Texas infantry on the eve of Shiloh. Chance (1984:24) describes the arrival of these “bundles of white wool uniforms” -- though he implies that they were requisitioned from New Orleans. This type of short-lived fatigue blouse, contracted for with out-workers by Capt. Wharton of the nascent Houston Depot, probably ceased manufacture by the end of 1862. This ‘type’ might best be termed the ‘Texas Contract Blouse’.
(from unpublished article by KC MacDonald, available on the web at http://www.nsalliance.org/uniforms/texaslouisianajackets.pdf)
The pictured blouse may not be 'white woolens', but it could well be Huntsville 'Sheep Gray' wool jean cloth, which was also manufactured at the Penitentiary.
The image in question is of Private David E. Stanton, Co D, 16th Texas Infantry, Walker's Division, and would have been made shortly after his enlistment in May, 1862.
Opinions?
KC MacDonald
Founding Member Lazy Jacks Mess
****************************
Proud Galveston BOI (Born on Island)
Gr-Gr Grandson of 5 Confederates (and one Yankee...)
Currently residing in an ex-Tailoring Sweatshop built in Huntingdon, England in 1851
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