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Chapman's Battery
12-14-2008, 05:32 PM
Does anyone know of any inmformation about CD jackets being issued to Virginia troops in SW Virginia in late 1862? Thanks Rick

Wayne M Clark
12-15-2008, 03:58 PM
Yes,the entire June 1862 production of 240 wooden boxes of uniforms from the quartermaster facilities at Columbus , GA was shipped to Richmond, VA for distribution. Source ___Columbus, Georgia in the Confederacy byDiffee W Standard, The William Fredrick Press, 1954 page 37.
OR's Ser.1, Vol.42, Part 3 page 1269 Quartermaster Letter
Photograph of the "Old Guard" taken at Richmond,VA 1897 wearing uniforms they were supposedly wearing at Appomattox
Photograph of Pvt. Charles Bachman, Co H 20th South Carolina Inf in ANV summer 1864
W. Clark