Repro Ammunition Wagon

[Red Raider]

I must agree that is one of the daintiest looking wagons I have seen from this period. I think the smallest four-wheel wagon I have seen from that time frame are the Rucker Ambulances and the Studebakers. I do believe my 100 Black Lab could pull this one. I would suggest trying out farm equipment auctions, estate sales, and Facebook marketplace (I hate Facebook). I will talk to some of the guys I know with farms and see what they have. My cousin travels to Iowa for work and may be able to find something out that way.
V/r
Joe

 

[Pvt Sam Dile]

Model 1858 Six Mule Army Wagon.

 

[Trooper "D"]

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Beautiful Wagon.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Hi,

Looking for your thoughts on a wagon like this for reenactment purposes. Doesn't have to be an "ammunition" wagon.

Too small? Not period enough? Wheels are wrong but bad enough to make it unusable as a prop. Those type of things.

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Do these wheels actually roll? If you could get some wooden wheels that fit in design and size I can see something salvageable. Just not an Ordnance Wagon or any other kind of wagon. A cart of some type. It would great for picking up the dead and piling them in too roll them to the open pits for planting. Or maybe to transfer wounded. Requisitioned street sellers cart put use where needed. Putting some items in and around the thing might help hide some. Like piles of foraged food that by happy accident was collected from the place that the little cart just happened to be.
Now thinking about it a requisitioned cart to carry the requisitioned food and family silver. Wicked Yankees pushing it along when some Confederates happen upon them and reason that they themselves should be the ones pushing that cart to their camp. Bedlam ensues.
The Requisitioned Cart Skirmish.
Then maybe a oil lamp gets shot and lamp oil splatters everywhere causing the whole cart to erupt in flames and burn throughout fighting.
OK, nobody is going to really burn ths thing. Use your imagination though and find a use for it.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Do these wheels actually roll? If you could get some wooden wheels that fit in design and size I can see something salvageable. Just not an Ordnance Wagon or any other kind of wagon. A cart of some type. It would great for picking up the dead and piling them in too roll them to the open pits for planting. Or maybe to transfer wounded. Requisitioned street sellers cart put use where needed. Putting some items in and around the thing might help hide some. Like piles of foraged food that by happy accident was collected from the place that the little cart just happened to be.
Now thinking about it a requisitioned cart to carry the requisitioned food and family silver. Wicked Yankees pushing it along when some Confederates happen upon them and reason that they themselves should be the ones pushing that cart to their camp. Bedlam ensues.
The Requisitioned Cart Skirmish.
Then maybe a oil lamp gets shot and lamp oil splatters everywhere causing the whole cart to erupt in flames and burn throughout fighting.
OK, nobody is going to really burn ths thing. Use your imagination though and find a use for it.

It kind of reminds me of the old railroad baggage carts. We have one here at the visitor's center that was used to transport the coffins of dead soldiers coming off the train back in WWII. I get if you research a little you might find similar carts at rail depots or other such locations back in the 1860s.
Cheers!