Bowie Knives

PartywithArty · May 13, 2012

I know the D-guard was the most popular,but what are some other styles the soldiers would have had? What were some of the civilian style bowies? Also pocket knives.. What were some common pocket knives carried in the war?

DanF · May 13, 2012

Here is a pretty cool Confederate Bowie knife recovered at the battlefield at Perryville. I would love to have a good quality reproduction of it.

http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_bowie.html

If you have 9,000 laying around you can get this one on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-T-A-Po...ible_Knives&hash=item5d30c6cf4c#ht_2251wt_905

PartywithArty · May 13, 2012

DanF said:
Here is a pretty cool Confederate Bowie knife recovered at the battlefield at Perryville. I would love to have a good quality reproduction of it.

http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_bowie.html

If you have 9,000 laying around you can get this one on Ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-T-A-Po...ible_Knives&hash=item5d30c6cf4c#ht_2251wt_905

those are very nice knives. as far as the $9000 laying around...thats a negative...

James B White · May 13, 2012

The Sheffield bowies were also quite popular.

http://www.historicarkansas.org/collections/knives.aspx?id=54

unicornforge · May 13, 2012

A good book on the subject is,
Civil War Knives by Marc Newman (Nov 1, 1998)

Bob Owen · May 13, 2012

This is the first Bowie knife made for James Bowie by James Black in Arkansas. It is now located in the State Museum at Little Rock, Arkansas. T here is some argument but plenty of documentation.

The real deal!

Dugger · May 13, 2012

Dont know much bout the historical Bowie knives but every dang Alamo movie has Jim taking out a couple of Mexicans with it just before he becomes a pincushion....cept the last movie made a while back. In that one he blasts away with 2 pistols given him by Crockett, reaches for his knife but is bayoneted before he can make his final slashing statement. Disapointed me! Stick with the legend! Sells better. (hell he was was probably so sick he might well have been dead before the final battle) We will never know.

unionblue · May 14, 2012

LT.J.H.McDaniel said:
I know the D-guard was the most popular,but what are some other styles the soldiers would have had? What were some of the civilian style bowies? Also pocket knives.. What were some common pocket knives carried in the war?

LT.J.H.McDaniel,

If you would like to procure a repo D-guard knive, go to the following website and scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Fall Creek Sutlery, Swords & Sabers:

http://www.fcsutler.com/fcswordsabers.asp

I bought the D-guard knive and it is a big hit with the kids when I do my school presentations.

Go to the section marked "Haversack stuffers" for more knive examples and a repo pocket knive.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

PartywithArty · May 14, 2012

unionblue said:
LT.J.H.McDaniel,

If you would like to procure a repo D-guard knive, go to the following website and scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Fall Creek Sutlery, Swords & Sabers:

http://www.fcsutler.com/fcswordsabers.asp

I bought the D-guard knive and it is a big hit with the kids when I do my school presentations.

Go to the section marked "Haversack stuffers" for more knive examples and a repo pocket knive.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

i might just do that! UB,you know you can still call me JP... Were friends! :thumbsup:

unionblue · May 14, 2012

LT.J.H.McDaniel said:
i might just do that! UB,you know you can still call me JP... Were friends!

JP,

I just didn't want to use such if you did not want me to. Thanks for letting me know its OK.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

PartywithArty · May 14, 2012

unionblue said:
JP,

I just didn't want to use such if you did not want me to. Thanks for letting me know its OK.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

not a problem. Just wanted to change my user name incase someone from my work googled my name and tried to dig up some dirt on me. lol

keith herring · May 14, 2012

I've seen early war pictures of young confederate soldiers posing with large knives and pistols. I thought most of these were discarded by their first campaign (ever packed useless junk on a long road march?) I'm pretty sure they shed as much weight as possible to the necessities.

Bowie Knives

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