CS scabbards

[Slouch]

Re: CS scabbards

OR's, Series 4, Volume 2, Pages 955-958. The chart is on page 958, but the other pages of the report have alot of other cool info.

The numbers I listed were noted as coming from many "arsenals, armories, workshops, and depots". These are listed, but to numerous to write here.

[Jimmayo]

Re: CS scabbards

For CS bayonet scabbards, particularly, those worn by ANV infantry around 1862-63, what type of finial or tip was most prevalent? I've seen the all-sewn as well as lead ball finials for CS styles, but am unsure if one would be more appropriate than the other.

Rich Stonikas
Co. D 17th Mississippi Infantry

It's going to be impossible to answer your question as asked. There just are not enough surviving scabbards documented to time of use. In fact, compared to the total number of bayonet scabbards that were used, there are not enough surviving specimens to draw any conclusion except "they used one like that".

I suspect the tin tip scabbard was used in numbers but as mentioned above, not much is left of them when dug so there is no evidence of numbers used. I have seen one of the dug tips in good condition (I believe someone on this forum may have sent me the picture). Butch Myers has also done some work in this area and I believe he has made a few in the distant past.

I have recovered a good number of bayonet scabbard tips from CS sites especially 64/65 sites. Most are US mixed with a small number of Enfield types. I have dug a few large lead finials but could not tell what they were used on. There are also 1962 sites I have hunted along the Blackwater River where no scabbard tips were found. I don't know if that means they had sewn tips or just didn't have many bayonets at that time. May be time to examine the LOC pictures again.

[Charles Heath]

Re: CS scabbards

Rich, this is a good time to set aside three or four hours for a phone call to Butch.