ACW artifacts.

         ACW has been back burnered for forever. I started ACW too late. Too late for dad to be a part of it. He is gone now. RF&F maybe even could have gotten him to play. He loved to move the minis around and bullshitting with the guys.

        All the uniform and unit questions he could have answered from memory. Dad knew it all. The battlefield guides would hide when he was on site. They all would show up for his lectures. Ye old Historian from his Navy days.

        Dad lives on through his collection and his books. I don't think he ever thought in a million years a Custer would be reading his book about Custer.

 A mini ball and a repeating rifle cartridge. They would punch a big nasty hole in you. I think they are 45cal.

A distant relative. He fought in the PA cavalry. This is what is left of his equipment. Dad says his mother threw out the blouse after removing the buttons. I was one generation away from seeing it and to think it was still around in the 1960s.

This is all that is left from his personal equipment.

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