Schuylkill, or Richmond Depot

[aidenmac17]

Which one do you guys think has the better looking jackets/coats, Schuylkill, or Richmond Depot? I gotta say, mine is the Richmond Depot for their nice jacket designs.

Put your opinions in the comments below.

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[RedRover]

Well, the jackets from Schuylkill, or otherwise produced by contractors to the Army pattern, were pretty sharp...

The Richmond jackets were rather plain in comparison... with wood buttons, and other quality control and standardization issues...

But we might grant that the Confederate "gray jacket" plain as it was served its purpose in camp and field.

Many Union soldiers felt constrained to yank the fancy tape off of their Army jackets, and retailor the collars to a more comfortable height...

Some Indiana Cavalrymen at Petersburg in 1864 with variously modified jackets as above...

Some Union Cavalrymen in Tennessee; only the chap at far left seems to yet have all the trim on his jacket...

The only practical advantage of the Army jackets over the more comfortable flannel fatigue sack, was they were made of the sturdy uniform kersey cloth, and perhaps to slightly more advantage in colder weather...


Some of the Northern States procured and issued to their volunteers cloth jackets with various branch trim, like the New York Jackets... as worn by these chaps of the 23rd New York...

Or slightly plainer, (without the colored trim) like the Illinois jackets...

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

I'm gonna lean towards the Richmond Depot jackets. The "Type 1's" in theory were nice looking, and the "Type 2's"made from English kersey cloth are very nice looking.

But I'd throw out the probably New Orleans made early War Louisiana jackets as real nice looking.

An older thread on a possible "Type 1" Richmond:

The Holy Grail of Confederate Uniform Collecting, a Type I RD Jacket? | Relic Hunting & Collecting

Les Jensen wrote the paper on Richmond Depot Jackets and discussed the various Types I, II and III. Les was able to display pictures of existing Type II and IIIs, but was only able to show period photographs of the elusive Type I as none were known to exist. The closest was a reasonable copy, I...

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[SethJ]

Love me a black trimmed Richmond Jacket... But I'll have to go will Schuylkill.

 

[52ndFandS]

Which one do you guys think has the better looking jackets/coats, Schuylkill, or Richmond Depot? I gotta say, mine is the Richmond Depot for their nice jacket designs.

Put your opinions in the comments below.

Hats are also allowed in this topic.

Richmond. Especially the type 2 & 3. I'm all for shoulder straps but belt loops always seemed a little odd. Seemed an encumbrance.

 

[Dan Kohli]

I'd have to go with the Schuylkill MSJ.