Over 600 photos and over 400 pages in each volume. No duplications between the two. U.S. and foreign, U.S. and Confederate, from the era of the wheellock to the Warsaw Pact. Cover ball screws, wipers, mainstream vices, rods and thongs, oilers, combination tools, jags, wrenches, tompions, tool sets, brush and pick sets, and much more.

Gun Tools: Their History and Identification

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Rutledge, Lee A.

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Dorsey, R. Stephen

Technology

Collectors' Library

This second volume in the "Field Uniforms of the Indian War Army" series covers the period 1872 to 1886 when the foundation was laid for the modern "Army" uniform. The stockpiles of clothing left over from the Civil War were dwindling away and Congress and the Quartermaster Department had begun to succumb to the begging and pleading of officers and enlisted men on the frontier for new, properly designed uniforms. 
Rutledge traces the development of new trousers, jackets and undershirts the ancestor of today's "T-shirt", coats, boots and cold weather gear. Again, the emphasis is on what the regulations called for and what the soldiers actually wore when on campaign. Hollywood never got it right. If any cavalry trooper ever wore a yellow bandana, he bought it himself. White hats were never worn they gave your position away and were too hard to keep clean. Fancy leather gloves were privately purchased, not issued, and the buffalo overcoat for cold weather wear was issued sparingly because they were very expensive. 
For every regulation quoted, Rutledge provides at least one, and often more, quotations from Army personnel showing how the issue item was modified, really worn or substituted. Line drawings and period photographs accompany the text.

Campaign Clothing: Field Uniforms of the Indian War Army (Part. 2 1872-1886)

North Cape, 1997

Hollywood has given us the image of the American soldier in the Western Plains from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to the closing of the frontier at the turn of the century as a heroic figure clad in immaculately tailored blue trousers with a yellow stripe down the leg, a variety of lighter blue shirts, white hats and big yellow bandanas. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the years following the Civil War, rarely were more than half the 35,000 man Army stationed west of the Mississippi River at one time. And these few soldiers were scattered among a series of primitive forts and posts from Texas to California, from Montana to Arizona. They were ill-fed, ill-housed, ill-equipped and ill-clothed. Millions of uniforms had been manufactured for use by Union troops between 1861 and 1865, all designed for the conditions of terrain, weather and climate found on the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Troops sent to the Rocky mountain regions or the deserts of Texas, New Mexi

Campaign Clothing: Field Uniforms of the Indian War Army 1866-1871 (Collector's Guide to Military Uniforms) by Lee A. Rutledge (1998-01-08)

North Cape Publications, Inc.

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