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Date Posted: 07/11/04 2:45:28pm
Author: Doug Cooper
Subject: Not so ragged after-all?

Kevin Dally dug this out of:
Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War.
2002. Harold S. Wilson. Univ. Press of Miss.
ISBN 1-57806-462-7

Page 127...
" on Nov.8th Lawton sent Hood's command at Tuscumbia another supply consisting of 28,408 Jackets; 38,305 pants; 36,865 pairs of shoes; 21,561 drawers; 17,910 shirts; 40,800 pairs of socks; & 141 bails of Blankets...
The Confederate Army of Tennessee that fought the Battles of Franklin on Nov.30, & Nashville on Dec. 15 was dashingly outfitted." (The last part is the author's opinion).

Further reading shows an additional 6500 pairs of shoes and 2900 blankets shipped to Hood during this same time frame.

No info on the type jackets issued in this lot but the sources were likely Alabama Depots, owing to Atlanta's fall as Wilson points out. As usual, we don't have any quotes I know of breaking it down between Dept of Alabama jackets, Columbus Depot Jackets and Mobile Depot/Mystery Jackets.
The federal prisoner accounts from Dalton and elsewhere of no jackets, missing shoes, ragged everything describe a fairly narrow timeframe and were redressed prior to entering Tennessee, as supported by other information sources sighted in a thread on the AC forum on "Frocks in the AoT?. - http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?p=26499#post26499

Doug

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Replies:

Re: Not so ragged after-all? -- PigPen, 07/11/04 4:23:15pm
Re: Not so ragged after-all? -- Phil Graf, 07/11/04 5:39:57pm
- Re: Not so ragged after-all? -- jason, 07/11/04 7:48:16pm
- Re: Not so ragged after-all? -- Doug Cooper, 07/11/04 9:14:42pm
  - Re: Not so ragged after-all? -- dusty, 07/12/04 2:56:52am
    - Overcoats -- Doug Cooper, 07/12/04 5:40:51am
    - Re: Not so ragged after-all? -- Fred Baker, 07/12/04 6:38:28am
      - Shoes and keeping warm were their big problems -- Doug Cooper, 07/12/04 11:07:08am
        Re: Shoes and keeping warm were their big problems -- dusty, 07/12/04 4:14:15pm
More first person accounts of clothing issue -- Doug Cooper, 07/13/04 1:52:26pm
- Re: More first person accounts of clothing issue -- Phil Graf, 07/13/04 5:48:31pm

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