jr baker
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- covington tn
What knives would have been used in civil war I know they carried bowies. Was any knives issued. and would very many of the soldier both north and south would carried pocket knives thanks
I'm not sure of the actual popularity of Bowie knives/belt knives, you see them in an awful lot of early war personal photographs though,and not just Southern men. As for pocket knives, I can't imagine a soldier without one. In some of Greg Coco's book's dealing with the post-Gettysburg battlefield, it's clean up, and burial of the dead, accounts often mention pocket knives being amoung the effects of the dead, (those who weren't robbed that is).
They even make this handy combo fork knife spoon thing... the spoon is handy for feeding information when a book or internet search can turn up the same results
I would tend to agree Craig, what is a man without a pocket knife? No man who worked the farm went without one. I carry one on my person all the time when in and out of uniform.