Description
Texas military equipment differs in various ways from the equipment produced for the eastern Confederate states. A few of the Texas-produced equipment used to be blacksmithed, or local-artisan made, and in many cases featured the Lone Star as a symbol of Texas. Up to date Civil War literature ceaselessly mentions that most soldiers of Texas displayed the Lone Star somewhere on their uniform or equipment.
In this groundbreaking volume, Richard Mather Ahlstrom has photographed and described more than five hundred Texas-related artifacts. He shows the diverse use of the Lone Star on hat pins, waist-belt plates, buckles, horse equipment, side knives, buttons, and canteens. As well as, the weapons that Texans used in the Civil War are featured in chapters on the Tucker Sherrard and Colt pistols; shotguns, rifles, and muskets; and swords. Rounding out the volume are chapters on leather accouterments, uniforms and headgear, and a gallery of Texas soldiers in photographs.
This book will prove to be a valuable reference guide for Civil War collectors, historians, museum curators, re-enactors, and federal and state agencies.