Added 5/15:
A new article on the firm of John & George Gibson, maker of millions of wooden uniform buttons for the Richmond Depot, and the suggested identification of the four-hole wooden buttons seen on late war garments as products of that company.
Added 12/26:
See the Articles page for a sampling of CS regimental ordnance returns. Four times a year, every regiment had to account for government property down to the last haversack.
Zouaves of the 95th PA Infantry near Centreville, Virginia in early 1862. They are armed with imported Austrian Lorenz rifles. (Library of Congress)
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