Brass Napoleon Award New guy needs help identifying items

[Taylor Ratliff]

Welcome to the forums from the host of the Stonewall Jackson Forum and another collector! I also have a Springfield M.1840 conversion dated 1842 but mine's the so-called Belgian or cone conversion in the middle:

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Very nice and thank you very much for the warm welcome! You have a very nice display!

 

[Robert E Lee 1]

From what I know the US symbol on the cartridge boxes stands for Union service if I remember correctly and some say the CS belt buckles and other items are just tourist things but I believe I read they stand for Confederate service. And I assume the big mallet hammer was used for putting tent spikes in place .