Federal blanket

[spadegrip]

I picked up a Federal blanket and I would like to identify the maker. It's tan/brown with a Chain like weave, no US in the middle and it is unraveling at the top and bottom. I can send pics if you give me your email.
Thanks in advance.

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Federal blanket

Is is fairly soft or on the 40 grit scratchy side? Is it more tan than brown? And how wide are the end stripes?

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Federal blanket

Does it look like one of these?

[mike44thva]

Re: Federal blanket

He sent me several photos yesterday, and I'm stumped. Imagine a Julius Jones with a "return selvage", not a "tucked selvage" (which eliminates a Julius Jones and a NJS). Its also not an Abe Thomas, Auggie Weissert, or Keagy Noble. Ideas?

[mike44thva]

Re: Federal blanket

Robert, I know the one in the middle is from a different run than the one on the left. Care to part with it ( I have the one on the left and right ) for a reasonable price?

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Federal blanket

The middle and the left are identical apart from age. They are both County Cloth Fed 1851s.

Sorry Mike, I am a blanket hoarder, they are not for sale.

[Daniel]

Re: Federal blanket

I have a National Historical Society blanket/Fred Gadie (Sorry for the misspelling.) that I bought in the 80's. It was one of those brown early war blankets. When I received it did not have a US on the blanket. But it had instructions on how to sew a US.

Dan Stewart

[Tyler Gibson]

Re: Federal blanket

Blanket hoarding is indeed a worthwhile endeavor. Then again, I have a similar... problem.

[spadegrip]

Re: Federal blanket

My blanket looks like the one on the far right. I'd say it's exactly like that one.

[Nighthawk]

Re: Federal blanket

Now you need some Confederate blankies!

[teufelhund]

Re: Federal blanket

There was a fella on the other forum that offered Federal blankets for sale that look like the one on the right of Robert's photo. It had a pronounce cut selvage, was the brown color with red and blue shoddy through it and it came along with instructions for sewing different variations of the "US" on it. When I bought one, he claimed that it was copied from an original at the Chickamauga Museum. But I gather from talking with another person later on, there was some controversy about the claim because they apparently do not have a Federal blanket in the museum's collection. But that is the extent of what I learned.