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Artillery have red stripes?


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I'm ordering a garden gnome. I wish to have him protect my domicile.

 

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The only problem is his uniform is the wrong color. I don't believe the Confederacy ever issued green coats.

 

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So I'm going to have to repaint his coat. I'm thinking butternut. The blue pants are all right - captured Yankee. But do cannon cockers have a red stripe?

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I wasn't thinking about his chevrons, although I really appreciate the picture.

 

I was thinking down the pants leg seam. Yellow for cavalry, and I understand infantry was light blue. But should he have red stripes down his legs?

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15 minutes ago, PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L said:

Would it really matter if the pants are "captured Yankee"...unless from a Union artilleyman?
 

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Well Rufus there has a touch of OCD. So he needed some artilleryman trousers.

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22 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

I don’t know I would only expect occifers to have striped pants.

I don't know about artillery, obviously. But my understanding the cavalry - they all had a yellow stripe. The officer's stripe was wider than the enlisted men's. But they all had one.

 

Logic says artillery would be the same.

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My front door knome has horns. He was a gift from my neighbors two kids to protect my house when I am off shooting.

kR

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Gnarinfolk were not protectors.

 

You placed offerings at the corners of your property to keep them from killing your livestock.

 

Their caps are red from the blood of the stuff they've killed

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Maybe in the old country. But a lot of immigrants changed their way of life when they came to America. B)

 

Like this young lady. Had to find a new way to make a living.

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7 hours ago, Alpo said:

I wasn't thinking about his chevrons, although I really appreciate the picture.

 

I was thinking down the pants leg seam. Yellow for cavalry, and I understand infantry was light blue. But should he have red stripes down his legs?

Enlisted no stripes - non coms and officers stripes.

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7 hours ago, Alpo said:

I don't know about artillery, obviously. But my understanding the cavalry - they all had a yellow stripe. The officer's stripe was wider than the enlisted men's. But they all had one.

 

Logic says artillery would be the same.

Officer stripes were larger After the Civil War during it they were narrow beads of gold color. Non Coms had different widths based on rank.

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The stripes on the pants were for NCOs and officers.

 

Sergeants had, if I recall,  a 1 1/2" stripe, corporals a 1" stripe.

 

Officers had 1/2" or 1/4" stripes, I don't remember which.

 

The only green jackets, so far as I know,  were 1st US Sharpshooters.  Medics/hospital stewards wore a green sash, or had a wide green stripe on each sleeve and possibly a green collar.  I don't know how accurate the reproduction is

 

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Don't know about the stripe on the pants but I think the Rebels only used raised white letter tires on their guns. And Crager rims.

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22 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

I don’t know I would only expect occifers to have striped pants.

NCOs also had a stripe. Officer had. Narrow welt in the seam

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13 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

The stripes on the pants were for NCOs and officers.

 

Sergeants had, if I recall,  a 1 1/2" stripe, corporals a 1" stripe.

 

Officers had 1/2" or 1/4" stripes, I don't remember which.

 

The only green jackets, so far as I know,  were 1st US Sharpshooters.  Medics/hospital stewards wore a green sash, or had a wide green stripe on each sleeve and possibly a green collar.  I don't know how accurate the reproduction is

 

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Officers had a branch color welt in the trouser seam rather than a wide stripe. It was changed to a 1 1/2 “ stripe in 72

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On 5/1/2024 at 11:30 PM, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said:

:ph34r:  Hence the appelation of "Redleg"...

 

 

i think that term was applied to the raiders./guerillas of the kansas- missouri fighting of the civil war , also known as jayhawkers i think , raiding parties that opposed the missouri quantrill raiders , both parties committed some crimes but both were respected by the regular armies of their persuasion , 

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