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On surviving RD-II jackets what kind of thread color variation is there? Most extant examples I've seen were either whited brown or oxidized brown- i.e. dyed with logwood. Columbus Depot jacket thread ranged in color from dark brown to blue. Does anyone know of any examples that fall out of the whited-brown to oxidized brown range?
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Yours, etc.,
Matt White
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"One of the liveliest rows I had while in the service was with the quartermaster for filling a requisition that I made for shoes for my company, on the theory that no shoe was too large for a Negro, and he gave me all 10's and upwards. When I returned the shoes, informing him that my soldiers did not wear pontoons, he insisted that I should take them and issue them to my company anyway. Well, I didn't do it: consequently the row."
-Robert Beecham 2nd Wisconsin/23rd USCT