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Re: Battlefield Pickups
A couple of items stick in my mind after reading CW books and diaries for 25 years:
* in late 1864 New Orleans General Orders were issued to Federal troops to stop wearing Rebel belt plates.
* Stonewall Jackson court martialed soldiers for picking up battlefield equipment. At Chancellorsville he place an artillery sergeant under arrest for picking up a Yankee poncho.
* In Atlanta Campaign (Sam Watkins) Confederate soldiers would strip Union prisoners as they came down the road starting with their hats.
* a soldiers of 36 Miss Inf had his new issue Yankee canteen shot thru at Corinth - he kept it as a souvenir of his first battle.
* At Shiloh the rebel army picked up masses of deserted equipment
* In the "62 Valley Campaign Stomewall ordered all Federal jackets being worn by his troops to be dyed immediately upon arriving in camp
* In 1991 Kuwait we stripped enemy equipment as we came along it for souvenirs or as curios.
Roger Hansen
A couple of items stick in my mind after reading CW books and diaries for 25 years:
* in late 1864 New Orleans General Orders were issued to Federal troops to stop wearing Rebel belt plates.
* Stonewall Jackson court martialed soldiers for picking up battlefield equipment. At Chancellorsville he place an artillery sergeant under arrest for picking up a Yankee poncho.
* In Atlanta Campaign (Sam Watkins) Confederate soldiers would strip Union prisoners as they came down the road starting with their hats.
* a soldiers of 36 Miss Inf had his new issue Yankee canteen shot thru at Corinth - he kept it as a souvenir of his first battle.
* At Shiloh the rebel army picked up masses of deserted equipment
* In the "62 Valley Campaign Stomewall ordered all Federal jackets being worn by his troops to be dyed immediately upon arriving in camp
* In 1991 Kuwait we stripped enemy equipment as we came along it for souvenirs or as curios.
Roger Hansen
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