Uniforms Writing one's name on uniforms and equipment.

Canteens were the most marked items as a soldier would be detailed to take them to a creek or well and fill them up and you wanted to make sure you got yours back.
 
Sometimes it was just initials as this one in my collection is that belonged to James H Douglas 52nd NC Inf
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Abner Small of Maine marked his gun. He wrote that he did this because his first gun had been stolen (Small suspected his own sergeant.
 
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