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- Mar 21, 2012
Which future Civil War General - while a cadet at West Point (class 1842) - played a role in revolutionizing army trousers by replacing the flap front by a button fly?
credit: @sarladaise
Mike's 44th Birthday Bonus!
My brother and I were born in what is now Germany. We came to America in the 1830s and set up a tinsmithing business. With the outbreak of war in 1861, we began making weapons. We had a very large factory employing 400 workers but had difficulty meeting production because of a lack of skilled machinists. The government bought our works in 1864. Examples of our work are highly prized by collectors.
Who are we?
What was the name of our wartime company?
Where was it located?
credit: @WJC
credit: @sarladaise
Mike's 44th Birthday Bonus!
My brother and I were born in what is now Germany. We came to America in the 1830s and set up a tinsmithing business. With the outbreak of war in 1861, we began making weapons. We had a very large factory employing 400 workers but had difficulty meeting production because of a lack of skilled machinists. The government bought our works in 1864. Examples of our work are highly prized by collectors.
Who are we?
What was the name of our wartime company?
Where was it located?
credit: @WJC