Help with Jackets

[ANdrEW549]

I was looking through some pictures of jackets in the 6th NC.S.T to find a common pattern, I did, but it left me with a question. They appear similar to the Columbus depot style jacket because of the color of the collar and cuffs, but the 6th was in the ANV. I don't know another pattern in the ANV that was similar, or could they just be commutation jackets?Here are some of the pictures ( I believe that one or two are actually overshirts)

 

[Legion Para]

None of these images show a Columbus Depot or commutation jacket being worn. The soldier in image No. 2 is wearing a frock coat.

Have you thought about contacting the North Carolina Museum of History to see if they have any 6th NC uniforms in their collection. You can do an online search of their collection.

The following book by Greg Mast may be very useful in your study of uniforms worn by North Carolina soldiers. It's been long out of print and copies can be expensive. Greg is still working on Volume Two.

State Troops and Volunteers: A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers

 

[Legion Para]

Columbus Depot jacket.

http://adolphusconfederateuniforms.com/basics-of-confederate-uniforms.html

"Image 50: Private David Fenimore Cooper Weller, Company C, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, wore this Columbus, Georgia Depot jacket. The Columbus jacket is perhaps the second best known Confederate depot uniform, and may have been the most prolific, second only to the Richmond uniform. This jacket was made and issued after its salient features had been established, to include its six-button front, facings on the collar and cuffs (the latter cut straight across), one-piece sleeves, six-piece body, and a rough, jeans cloth body. Artifact courtesy of the Kentucky Military History Museum, Frankfort, Kentucky."

 

[Grayrock Volunteer]

I agree, not Columbus Depot type jackets. There is at least one frock pictured. Judging by the gathering at the cuffs of some of the other men's tunics they appear to be wearing a full button front shirt or at minimum a shirt with a very long plackette. Not unheard of, but not particularly common.

 

[ANdrEW549]

Have you thought about contacting the North Carolina Museum of History to see if they have any 6th NC uniforms in their collection. You can do an online search of their collection.]

The 6th on their website had links to all items related to them on the NC Museum of history website. But recently the links have been broken. I've tried going to the site, but the "search the collections" feature is not giving me useful stuff, just the flags and the officer's portraits.

 

[AUG]

Not sure but would like to know. Maybe @Frederick14Va would have something to say on this.

 

[Frederick14Va]

Agreed the above images in the original post are not Columbus Depot jackets. They may appear similar due to the cuff and collar style, but not one and the same. These all appear to be early war items. NC continued supplying their own troops for a good while... Some quantities of excess NC pattern jackets were sent to Richmond and issued out to whomever needed a replacement. Other NC troops also drew and received goods via Richmond Depot issue patterned jackets likewise.. There is the issue of "most common".. then there will be the occasional short run exception to the "rule"...

Columbus jackets existing in the ANV in small quantities aren't completely a fable either... A number of the AOT troops that came back east with Longstreet were wearing them... Also at least one instance that Ive researched revealed that several shipments of excess text book Columbus Depot pattern jackets were sent to Richmond around Spring/early summer of 1864, and issued out.. Ive seen some images of identified Virginia troops wearing them... that had never gone or served in the western theater..

 

[Legion Para]

You will find this article on Columbus Depot jackets of interest:

CONFEDERATE "COLUMBUS DEPOT" JACKETS

The Material Evidence

Geoffrey R. Walden

http://authentic-campaigner.com/articles/walden/cdjacket.htm