Missouri "Secesh" wooden Cart. Box

[rebjeb04]

Wow,
Check out what Ole' Champion Hill Johnny has on his site. It looks like it passed the inspection of the authentication gooroos to boot. Its almost like one of those early militia boxes from the Rev. War, and looks pretty easy to make. Looks like there is some stitching on the belt loops, so it may have been crafted from parts of other things.

http://www.championhillrelics.com/MiscNonDug.htm

[missourimule]

Wow, that is really neat! It really makes you wonder what all of the other homemade equipage looked like that followed the men throughout Missouri. I think a guy could get pretty creative.

Drew Bruner

[CSengineer]

Wow is right! That looks pretty crude. Only holds eight cartridges? It's hard to get a real feeling of scale, but it doesn't look all that much bigger than a cap pouch. Can't help but wonder if the soldier carried more than one?

[rebjeb04]

Hey Drew and Brett,
Your right. Especially for a government and army created overnight with establishing regulations for arms and equipment. Missouri was stuck out there a little on her own resources in a lot of areas. They were just about cut off entirely from everything with her Southern gov't. in exile.

My friend Bob Serio once told me something very enlightening about the uniforms and material culture from this era. He put it simply; figure all existing things tangible now in photographs and relics, and compare with what did exist, total, (men in the armies). That figure, all though I have not tried to tally it, must be pretty great. When taking that into consideration it often helps me to make a decision with constructing a garment, for example. If you use the correct materials, construction method, and have at least an existing article to examine, it would be hard to argue that it did not exist.

One always has to come at this with a fairly open mind. This wooden block with a nail and a leather strap tacked on it is proof of that. ;)

[Ltkris81]

Wow. A fellow from our unit came out to a shoot a few years ago with a box he had made that looked just like this one and we all had a good laugh at him..... Guess we shouldn't have done so :P

[rebjeb04]

I saved some pics of it for ref.

http://www.championhillrelics.com/MissouriBox2.JPG

http://www.championhillrelics.com/MissouriBox7.JPG

http://www.championhillrelics.com/MissouriBox3.JPG

http://www.championhillrelics.com/MissouriBox10.JPG

[Gallinipper]

Wow, that's really something. It's probably not too much of a stretch to suppose this fellow molded his own ammunition on occasion, as well.