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    Confederate Indian Troops Ordnance Records

    These are pretty hard to find, so I thought I'd post them here. Enjoy



    CSR of Col. D. McIntosh, 1st Creek Regiment

    Ordnance Stores Received April 21st 1863

    153 lbs Powder
    476 lbs Lead
    15000 S.G. or Rifle Caps
    500 Rifle Flints
    2000 Buck Shot Cartridges

    CSR of Lt. Col. Jumper, Seminole Battalion

    Ordnance Stores Received March 21st 1862:

    1 keg Powder
    160 lbs lead
    1200 Cartridges

    Ordnance Store Received May 2nd 1862

    1 keg Powder
    5000 Caps
    25 lbs Buck Shot

    Ordnance Stores Received June 15th 1862:

    2 Kegs Powder
    5000 Caps

    Ordnance Stores Received July 18th 1862

    180 Flints
    39 lbs Lead

    Ordnance Stores Received August 7th 1862:

    36 lbs Lead

    Will MacDonald
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    Re: Confederate Indian Troops Ordnance Records

    Intresting that in 1863, they were still receiving flints.
    Bill Jordan

    “I ended the war a horse ahead.”
    Nathan Bedford Forrest

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    • #3
      Re: Confederate Indian Troops Ordnance Records

      Good find Will, supply in the I.T. was rare for the Indian troops or legand says. Not surprised to see flints being issued, the real question is whether they were for military or civilian arms.
      Andrew Grim
      The Monte Mounted Rifles, Monte Bh'oys

      Burbank #406 F&AM
      x-PBC, Co-Chairman of the Most Important Committee
      Peter Lebeck #1866, The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
      Billy Holcomb #1069, Order of Vituscan Missionaries

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      • #4
        Re: Confederate Indian Troops Ordnance Records

        It seems they were casting a lot of their own rounds too with all the lead being shipped to them. Unavoidable based on the variety of weapons they seem to have been using.
        Louis Zenti

        Pvt. Albert R. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-W.I.A. February 15, 1862)
        Pvt. William H. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-K.I.A. February 15, 1862 Ft. Donelson)
        Pvt. Simon Sams (Co. C, 18th Iowa Inf.-K.I.A. January 8, 1863 Springfield, MO)
        Pvt. Elisha Cox (Co. C, 26th North Carolina Inf.-W.I.A. July 3, 1863 Gettysburg)

        "...in the hottest of the fight, some of the rebs yelled out...them must be Iowa boys". Charles O. Musser 29th Iowa Infantry

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        • #5
          Re: Confederate Indian Troops Ordnance Records

          And an important distinction between the CSA Indian regiments and the 3 Federal Indian Home Guard regiments. The Oklahoma Historical Society has/has access to some QM returns for the IHG regiments and they were well equipped and uniformed as Federal troops. At the recent 150th Honey Springs, those portraying the IHG got it all wrong, had them in all sorts of get ups. CSA regiments on the other hand lacked good uniforms and used all variety of weapons as supported by this document.
          Frank Siltman
          24th Mo Vol Inf
          Cannoneer, US Army FA Museum Gun Crew
          Member, Oklahoma Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission
          Company of Military Historians
          Lawton/Fort Sill, OK

          Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty.— Robert A. Heinlein

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            Re: Confederate Indian Troops Ordnance Records

            Takes me back to reading "Rifles for Watie" in the 5th g.rade. The hook was set early.

            Good stuff Will.
            Bryant Roberts
            Palmetto Guards/WIG/LR

            Interested in the Palmetto Guards?
            palmettoguards@gmail.com

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