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    Peg leg and crutches needed for amputee

    Does anyone know what crutches and a peg leg would look like (or have any?) to reproduce?
    We have a leg missing now (anyone seen it on the field? ) and need to look the part for South.

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    Google Civil War peg leg and there will be several pictures. Look to be pretty straight forward to make. Good Luck!
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    During the 125th reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg I saw a lot of reactors using their muskets as crutches. Looked like a good idea with a thousand dollar plus Whitworth Rifle Musket.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron The Old Reb View Post
    During the 125th reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg I saw a lot of reactors using their muskets as crutches. Looked like a good idea with a thousand dollar plus Whitworth Rifle Musket.

    They are just tools.....
    Hell I have had to use a 1200$ shotgun as a boat paddle duck hunting.....
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    What ever floats your boat.
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    What ever floats your boat.
    It did not float the boat but sure got it to dry land.....
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    Had you not been trying to kill Donald Duck maybe the ducks would have towed you to shore.
    Anyway You should have a Maynard in your boat for a spare paddle.
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    I have a 19th century crutch but they were not designed to do much more than allow a person to stand supported, and maybe take a few steps. I'll see if I can post a photo here for you to examine. As for peg legs, one of my great-uncles was born with one leg that stopped just below the knee and he made his own peg legs. As a teenager, he could run as fast on that peg leg as many boys his age could run with two good legs, and played baseball and football. His name was Chester Holt (1894-1984) and taught school for 30+ years. His main claim to fame was despite being born with no fingers or thumbs but with webbed skin between the bones like two pads, Chester learned to write by holding a pen, pencil or chalk between each of his palms and had a beautiful calligraphy. He is listed in Ripley's Believe or Not for assembling miniature ladder back chairs (about 6 inches high) with woven seats inside of Jack Daniels whiskey bottles, and devised a wooden stopper with a tee bar that fits snugly inside the bottle flush against the shoulder of the bottle neck. Only one person was ever able to solve how Chester achieved that marvel, and Chester taught that man how to build the chair and how to make the other tools necessary to weave the chair seat. But Chester always regarded himself not as handicapped but physically challenged and did all sorts of wood carving from wooden ropes to chains, and even made a working wooden pocket knife with three blades. He liked to hunt and fish, and built a socket that he could use to hold a fishing rod or the forearm of a rifle or shotgun, and removed the trigger guard so he could operate the trigger. For many years, Chester lived next door to his brother, Lee Holt (1891-1982) who was my grandfather's brother-in-law. Both very fine gentlemen, school teachers, and like my grandfather, real sons of a Confederate soldier.

    http://www.uniqware.com/magazine3/le...oltChester.htm

    https://www.folkartinbottles.com/art...8-chester-holt
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