Marking Knapsacks

[BobbyHughes]

Comrades,

Maybe I entered the wrong thing, but I searched and didnt find anything.

So here goes, I was wondering if anyone knows where to get the right font or stencil for painting Unit markings on knapsacks?? I've not that steady a hand to do it freehand, so any help would be great!

Thanks in advance!

[Charles Heath]

First search with my Apple IIc hand-crank model computer yielded 18 threads on this very subject. :(

A search engine is a terrible thing to waste.

Now, within your personal library, which documents explain how to mark what where and with which color?

[Silas]

You're such a bad man, Chawls.

[BobbyHughes]

Found what I was looking for.... thanks

[career pvt]

Do not be afraid of freehand, that is how the old fellows did it. The EOG offers examples also. I would pose a question however. What if you belong to one unit but have to represent an other at a particular event. I hand painted my unit designation (and a fine job I would add), but as I would portray another unit more than my own I ended by blacking it out so as to fit in better.
Pvt. Bill Garriepy, 13th Mass. Vol. Inf.

[C.R. Henderson]

I've found, through the years, that marking rank on anything is a mistake, too. You start as a private but sometimes you portray a corporal or sergeant or an officer, even, and the rank can look odd. I just stick with my name now on just about everything. Bring it up to Buford, I'll do it for you.

Chris Henderson

[John Slade]

Comrades,
I have been having some touble logging on but now it is worked out.
I had pondered this same exact question this summer. The first solution that I came up with was to only paint my company letter on my pack, "G" in my case. I reasoned that what ever unit we are portraying at a particular event, 9 times out of 10 they will have a company "G."
However I have now have a better plan that has photographic evidence to back it up. I have seen in a book that I own National Geographic's Eyewitness To The Civil War, a pack with the initials:
M. C. P
G. . G
I plan on using a variation of this that will include my first person's initials and the origonal name of my company. I am not sure why there are no periods after the last letters on each row or why there are 2 between the "G's." I was not planing on replicating that detail.
I hope that this has helped. It is great to be back in the AC for the first time since school began this year.
A.P. Duafala
27th Virginia Inf.
Co. G
"Wheeling's own Shriver Greys"