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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tents: Procurement and Materials in the Continental Army

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Bunbury, British Camp, 1790 [1].          Recently, a friend sent me a link for a blog article  (excellent blog by the way) in which ...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Disreputable Young Farrier's Underwaistcoat: A look at the levelling (or elevating) of outer and inner garments, Part II.

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A farrier of questionable integrity in stable jacket/sleeved  waistcoat and breeches.  I suppose if it was a bit colder,  this could...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Stable Jacket or Underwaistcoat? A look at the levelling (or elevating) of outer and inner garments, Part I.

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The jacket, worn by the lowest of the low: Sailors and Stablehands, objects of scorn and derision. [1]             The sleeved wais...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Southern Powder Horns...scrimshaw and carving?

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Mayo Island Horn, c. 1774 [1]      Powderhorns of confirmed southern colonial provenance seem to be rare, and rather plain, or of the ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Morgan's Rifle Company: Deerlick Scout

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     "...through hardships and dangers that would have appalled the stoutest follower of Xenophon...in the heart of the enemy'...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Waistcoat of LtCol Stephens, 1st Virginia Regiment, c. 1756.

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Waistcoat attributed to LtCol Andrew Stephens, second-in-command to Col Washington, 1st Virginia Regiment (c. 1750-60) [1]    ...

Clothing the Virginia Brigades, Winter of 1778-79.

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There would have been a significant improvement in the clothing of the Continental soldier in the winter of 1778-79 from that which ...
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