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Here is a interesting Patent Model of a saddle patented by Lt. Robert N. Eagle, who apparently served under the pre-war command of Col. Sidney Albert Johnson and later Robert E. Lee. The patent model is dated 1861. Robert N. Eagle served as a volunteer in the war with Mexico, as a Pvt., in Co. E, Captain Archers 1st Regiment of Virginia Volunteers. Eagle was later appointed a First Lieutenant in the Second Cavalry (Jeff Davis’s Qwn) on March 3, 1855. Secretary of War Davis filled the 2nd Cavalry regiment with southerners under the command of Col. Sidney Albert Johnson and later Robert E. Lee. The regiment’s officers included 12 future Confederate generals. After Texas became a state, the 2nd Cavalry was sent to guard the Texans from the fierce Comanche warriors who raided frontier settlements, stole horses and cattle, killed men and carried off women. Eagle was often engaged in combat with hostile Comanche’s. At Small Creek, a tributary of the Nescutunga, near Fort Atkinson, on the 13th of May, 1859, Eagle was commended in the official report for conspicuous gallantry and energy, and complimented in orders by General Winfield Scott. Eagle served until the l5th of January, 1862, when he resigned his commission. The 2nd Cavalry fought in a total of thirteen Indian Campaigns. This information is from the book Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier by James R. Arnold
Eagle also patented some horse hobbles in 1863. I have not researched him beyond finding this info posted elsewhere so I am not sure what he did during the war. Anyway, the saddle is an interesting knock-off of the Mac. No doubt few, if any were made beyond the prototype but....it still survives in a private collection.
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Ken R Knopp
Here is a interesting Patent Model of a saddle patented by Lt. Robert N. Eagle, who apparently served under the pre-war command of Col. Sidney Albert Johnson and later Robert E. Lee. The patent model is dated 1861. Robert N. Eagle served as a volunteer in the war with Mexico, as a Pvt., in Co. E, Captain Archers 1st Regiment of Virginia Volunteers. Eagle was later appointed a First Lieutenant in the Second Cavalry (Jeff Davis’s Qwn) on March 3, 1855. Secretary of War Davis filled the 2nd Cavalry regiment with southerners under the command of Col. Sidney Albert Johnson and later Robert E. Lee. The regiment’s officers included 12 future Confederate generals. After Texas became a state, the 2nd Cavalry was sent to guard the Texans from the fierce Comanche warriors who raided frontier settlements, stole horses and cattle, killed men and carried off women. Eagle was often engaged in combat with hostile Comanche’s. At Small Creek, a tributary of the Nescutunga, near Fort Atkinson, on the 13th of May, 1859, Eagle was commended in the official report for conspicuous gallantry and energy, and complimented in orders by General Winfield Scott. Eagle served until the l5th of January, 1862, when he resigned his commission. The 2nd Cavalry fought in a total of thirteen Indian Campaigns. This information is from the book Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier by James R. Arnold
Eagle also patented some horse hobbles in 1863. I have not researched him beyond finding this info posted elsewhere so I am not sure what he did during the war. Anyway, the saddle is an interesting knock-off of the Mac. No doubt few, if any were made beyond the prototype but....it still survives in a private collection.
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Ken R Knopp
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