Improving my officers impression

[Capt7thWvCoA]

Hello comrades, I am looking for any advice on improving my us officers impression. My current set up is a sack coat with shoulder boards , black issued officers sword belt, m1850 foot officers sword , 1858 remington new model army , black slouch hat ( kepi/forge cap depending on event) sky blue trousers and black brogans. What advice can you veterans give ?

 

[Lampasas Bill]

You'll need a pouch for ammunition unless your remington is just for bluff. But, come to think of it, when I portrayed a 1st Lieutenant I carried a Colt without an ammunition pouch. I simply loaded it before an event, and when it ran dry it was time to take a casualty.

 

[Kirby the great]

Hello comrades, I am looking for any advice on improving my us officers impression. My current set up is a sack coat with shoulder boards , black issued officers sword belt, m1850 foot officers sword , 1858 remington new model army , black slouch hat ( kepi/forge cap depending on event) sky blue trousers and black brogans. What advice can you veterans give ?

Gonna need a haversack, two if you're a lower ranking officer like a captain or lieutenant, one regular tarred haversack and one officers haversack, carry rations in the regular haversack and you carry things like dispatches, paper, a pencil, stuff an officer will need in the field in your officers haversack. You can get an officers haversack at Kyle Windahl's website.

 

[RedRover]

 

[Dan Kohli]

If you're willing to spend the money, Probably getting some sort of private purchase style of canteen might be a nice touch. But I don't think it's not too inaccurate to stay with the government issued canteen for an officers impression.

 

[Capt7thWvCoA]

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The sack coat i use is a enlisted man's sack coat. Is that acceptable to use ?

 

[RedRover]

The sack coat i use is a enlisted man's sack coat. Is that acceptable to use ?

Officers were not allowed Government clothing. They were paid extra to provide their own. But that said, it probably wasn't odd to see an officer with a Government blouse here or there.

Most just bought cheap blue citizen's sack coats, and added military buttons and insignia, etc.

Besides the blue citizen's sacks with military buttons and shoulder-straps which were the most popular, Plain blue military jackets (of the type called today "Schuylkill arsenal jackets") were not uncommon...