1. North Carolina.
I was unsure of where to start with this question because the battle field trust says it’s almost a tie between Virginia and NC. Also as I was researching it appears the numbers are up to interpretation as well because many of the muster rolls were destroyed in the confederacy after the war. There is a research project in NC going on right now that is going individually through each soldier that served from that state and whether or not they were killed wounded or captured. From my research they say it’s the first study of its kind to do this and other states might follow suite.
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Bonus: About
2250 lbs.
100 caps in a can. 180 cans that weigh
12.5 lbs each. Nice little math bonus. Hopefully I read his thread correctly.
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Edit - The post given as the official answer was post # 48 in a thread about Confederate scout Lamar Fontaine, who was ordered to bring 18,000 percussion caps to Gen. Pemberton at Vicksburg. Post # 41 asked how much 18,000 caps would weigh, and post # 48 gave the answer as about 10 pounds or, after Package4 used his kitchen scale to get a more exact figure, 12.5 pounds.
Post # 48 isn't entirely clear as to whether 12.5 pounds was the weight of all 18,000 caps or just the weight of one tin. However, post # 2 in that thread says that Fontaine, after receiving his order, put the 18,000 caps in a waterproof saddle bag and rode off with them on his horse. If he had 2,250 pounds of percussion caps in his saddle bag, that was one strong horse.
My mind still boggles a bit at the idea of piling 18,000 percussion caps onto a kitchen scale, but that's what Package4 claims to have done.
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