Civil War Roundtable
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Forensic Jim
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Additional Photos
Here are a couple of additional photos. One is of the 107th U.S.C.T., in front of the guard house at Fort Corcoran on Nov. 1865. The soldier on the left has his sword out. The other is a photo of the execution of negro Pvt. William Johnson of the 23rd U.S.C.T., in front of Petersburg, on June 20, 1864. Unable to find out why Pvt. Johnson was executed but there were quite a few soldiers executed during the civil war.
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RIP Johnnie Rotten
So far, so good...So What!!
So far, so good...So What!!
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Gunsmoke47
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Smoke,
Great reading on the site you posted http://www.mobeetie.com/pages/flipper.htm
Does your museum have a website, or is this it ?
Fran
Great reading on the site you posted http://www.mobeetie.com/pages/flipper.htm
Does your museum have a website, or is this it ?
Fran
If it's meant for me to have it, it'll still be there.
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Ringmaster
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- Location: Arkansas
I don't have any artifacts to display - but here's an interesting story about Civil War cutlery... Pop told me this story, more than a couple of times.
Back when he was a kid, (late 20's - no later than 1930), Pop had a buddy, whose father owned a Civil War sword/sabre/thing. Their "play-time" would, I guess, be considered unsupervised, nowadays. Neway, the other kid would get his father's sword and sneak it out to the barn, to fight imaginary battles, etc.
Pop said they would take turns, chopping an anvil with that old sword, and actually cut small (tiny, I'm sure) chunks out of the anvil, with no apparent damage to the blade. Eventually, the hilt/handle got real loose (wonder why ?), and then his buddy's family moved away, so he never saw it again.
All he could remember, was that the blade was marked "New Orleans", but he couldn't remember any name. I did some research, later on, but all the names I gave him didn't "ring a bell".
At any rate, there must have been some pretty good technology back then, in the cutlery industry. Today's swordmakers would be hard-pressed to pass that test !
That's the kind of information they don't teach in schools....
JR
Back when he was a kid, (late 20's - no later than 1930), Pop had a buddy, whose father owned a Civil War sword/sabre/thing. Their "play-time" would, I guess, be considered unsupervised, nowadays. Neway, the other kid would get his father's sword and sneak it out to the barn, to fight imaginary battles, etc.
Pop said they would take turns, chopping an anvil with that old sword, and actually cut small (tiny, I'm sure) chunks out of the anvil, with no apparent damage to the blade. Eventually, the hilt/handle got real loose (wonder why ?), and then his buddy's family moved away, so he never saw it again.
All he could remember, was that the blade was marked "New Orleans", but he couldn't remember any name. I did some research, later on, but all the names I gave him didn't "ring a bell".
At any rate, there must have been some pretty good technology back then, in the cutlery industry. Today's swordmakers would be hard-pressed to pass that test !
That's the kind of information they don't teach in schools....
JR
"A knife without a blade, for which the handle is missing."
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain.
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain.
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Gunsmoke47
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Fran , the museum I am a board member on is one county over from Mobeetie in Wheeler county. We do have a website however, it is http://www.museuminpampa.org Kelley