Wallets for Ammunition

[AZReenactor]

Some time back on here we discussed the use of wallets or sacks with the ends sewed and a slit in middle. I could not find that old discussion but as I recall there were references to their use by Confederate Cavalry, refugees, slaves and general pre-war use as market bags. Anyways I was reading through Butterfields Camp and Outpost Duty in between visitors at the museum and came across this reference to wallets for ammunition which I thought worth highlighting:

13. It will seldom happen, in an action, that the supply of ammunition carried by the men will be exhausted before the regiment will be temporarily relieved. If such should be the case, however, the men will not leave the ranks, but notify the file-closers that their supply is getting low. The 3d sergeant will be supplied by the quarter-master's sergeant of the regiment, by notifying the colonel through some officer. The quarter-master's sergeant will have prepared empty forage sacks, sewed up at each end and open in the centre. In these the cartridges taken from the boxes may be placed, and thrown across the back of his horse, or over the shoulder, to be carried. Great care will be taken, where the different calibres of muskets exist in the same command, that the different cartridges are not mixed nor erroneously distributed. The brigade quarter-master will look particularly to this in distributing the reserve ammunition to regimental quarter-masters. The supply of caps should be looked to.

Butterfield, Daniel. Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry: With Standing Orders, Extracts from the Revised Regulations for the Army, Rules for Health, Maxims for Soldiers, and Duties of Officers. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1862

Having carried both wallets and ammunition boxes the order to have wallets prepared for quick transport of ammunition makes good sense as a wallet is much easier for man or horse to carry than the box. Now I just need to find who is making the best repro of period forage sacks. Anyone know of any extant originals to compare to?