Tait Jacket Photos

[Joe Walker]

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I have seen the red trim Tait. It had the solid red collar. Les Jensen showed it to me at a CW show where he has just acquired it. I don't believe he has it any more.

Joe Walker

[DBURT]

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Joe,
Can you remember anything else about this jacket?
Were the shoulder straps piped or solid red? Anything that will shed some light on this "mystery Tait"

Dave Burt.

[GreencoatCross]

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Here is a photo of the Benjamin Pendleton (2nd Virginia Infantry) jacket, courtesy of Hendershott Museum Consultants.

Brian White
Wambaugh, White, & Co.

[Joe Walker]

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This needs to be verified, but I heard that the person who had loaned the jacket had removed it prior to the storm and thereby saved it.

Joe Walker

[Joe Walker]

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The Hendershot jacket is most likely the one that I saw that Les had. I remember a small hole in the back.

Joe Walker

[Joe Walker]

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Mr. Burt,

Regarding the red trim Tait, I recall Less showing me where the solid red trim had been cut deep in the shoulder sleeves. I suppose Hedershot can verify. Looks very much like the jacket on dead Reb at "Ft Damnation" @ Pertersburg.

Joe Walker

[GreencoatCross]

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Guys,

I almost forgot about this sucker...what appears to be a vest made from a Tait jacket. Chris Daley published a quick study of this garment in his December 2006 newsletter, a link to which is found below.

http://www.cjdaley.com/newsletter/Dec06.htm

Brian White
Wambaugh, White, & Co.

[DBURT]

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Thanks Brian,
Apparently the Jeff Davis Legion was a cavalry unit.So we now have a cavalryman in a blue faced Tait jacket?Could this be the reason he altered it?
Add to this the red faced Pendelton Tait that was issued to an infantryman.It appears that the Tait jackets were issued very randomly indeed
Thoughts gang please.
Dave Burt

[GreencoatCross]

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The seemingly random issuance of artillery trimmed Tait jackets to infantrymen and vice-versa reminds me of reports from inspectors of the Western Confederate armies stating that infantrymen were sporting red-trimmed jackets. Perhaps it didn't always matter to the government who got what kind of branch-of-service-specific jacket as long as the requests were filled.

Brian White
Wambaugh, White, & Co.

[coastaltrash]

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Wasn't the British color for Infantry red in the first place?

[jacobite8749]

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No, British line wore red jackets, but various facings, mainly to do with the Regt. i.e buff, green, Royals had blue, and so on. You'd have to look at individual Regts to work out facing colours. Artillery wore blue jackets and red facings. Rifle Regts wore green. Militia wore same as line and the "private army, the British Rifle Volunteers wore gray.

I suspect the real reason, and one we'll never know is what the contract stipulated and who these "Tait" jackets were destined for, were they part of the Confederate contract? or part of the Alabama contract? What was Alabama's infantry colour?

I guess as the amount of uniforms shipped in, some may have been artillery, some infantry, things what they were they got issued.

[3alabama]

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or part of the Alabama contract? What was Alabama's infantry colour?

I guess as the amount of uniforms shipped in, some may have been artillery, some infantry, things what they were they got issued.

From searching through many photo's of Alabamaians the facing colors I have seen are all Black. Has anyone else come across different facing colors on garments for Alabamaians?

[DBURT]

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Back to an earlier post if two jackets were lost at Biloxi,which other Tait was lost?
I know the Taylor 63rd Tenn jacket was one, what was the other?

Dave Burt

[Joe Walker]

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Was it confirmed that the 63 Tenn Tait was lost? I had heard that the person who had loaned it to the museum had retreved it before the storm and this saving it.

Joe Walker

[PaulJ]

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Hi,
ref the 63rd Tennesse Tait jacket (blue collar and epaulettes) I had an e-mail from Mr Childs of County Cloth today - it is his understanding that the jacket survived Katrina. That would be a jacket I would love to see - does anyone know if there are any published pictures of this jacket (website or book) - or anyone that might be willing to share pics on the AC Forum?
Mr Childs interestingly also said "The 63rd Tenn. Tait jacket had Tait block 'I' buttons on the front as well as shoulder straps" I thought it was generally only Script I buttons on Tait's - but what do I know! Why would anybody (wartime or since) swap Script I for Block I (Tait) buttons? Can anybody shed any further light on this or have any more information on this intriguing jacket?

Best regards, Paul Jonsson. (England)

PS - I recently received a copy of this jacket from County Cloth - I think I'm going to have to be buried in it!:)