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This image was recently for sale on ebay, unfortunately I didn't win it. The auction said the back mark was from New Orleans.
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-Seth Harr
Liberty Rifles
93rd New York Coffee Cooler
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"One of the questions that troubled me was whether I would ever be able to eat hardtack again. I knew the chances were against me. If I could not I was just as good as out of the service"[/I]
[B]-Robert S. Camberlain, 64th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry[/B] -
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That photo is very interesting.
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It would be nice to have a better scan of the image so we could see what he is holding. The 2 coats are of wonder as well. Was he cold? The world may never know. I wonder if there are other such images out there[of men wearing both thier fatigue blouse and the frock].Chris R. Henderson
Big'uns Mess/Black Hat Boys
WIG/GVB
In Memory of Wm. Davis Couch, Phillips Legion Cav. from Hall Co. GEORGIA
It's a trick, Gen. Sherman!...there's TWO of 'em! ~Lewis Grizzard
"Learning to fish for your own information will take you a lot further than merely asking people to feed you the info you want." ~Troy Groves:DComment
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Before the latest forum crash there was a photograph posted on here from the Library of congress, I believe of a wharf, when zoomed in on showed a man wearing two sack coats, one tucked in like a shirt and another over top that. Perhaps some one else knows the photograph I am referring to.
The virtual Petersburg site has an interesting quote:
"And rainy day & no drill. We have drawn our clothing so there is considerable washing going on ... I drew a coat & will wear the old one on fatigue also ..."
- William Ray, 7th Wisconsin Volunteers, November 19, 1864
While it doesn’t specifically state he wore both at the same time it does show he had 2 fatigue blouses. I have also seen inventories from the contents of deceased soldiers that listed more then one coat in their possession.
Regards-Seth Harr
Liberty Rifles
93rd New York Coffee Cooler
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"One of the questions that troubled me was whether I would ever be able to eat hardtack again. I knew the chances were against me. If I could not I was just as good as out of the service"[/I]
[B]-Robert S. Camberlain, 64th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry[/B]Comment
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I know of the photograph...I would post it here if i could figure out how...:confused_Travis Franklin
"Patrick Fhailen"
The Missoura Shirkers
4th Mo. Inf.
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." Charles Dickens, 1862Comment
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