Footnotes
Note 1.
I obtained
my sample by searching through the following books and taking all appropriate
views. Editors of Time-Life Books, The Civil War, (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life
Books, 1984), (those volumes that pertained to the Army of Northem Virginia),
Ned Bradford, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, (New York: The Fairfax
Press, 1979), Editors of Time-Life Books, Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment
of the Confederacy, (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1991) and Greg Mast,
State Troops and Volunteers, Vol. 1. (Raleigh: North Carolina Division
of Archives and History, 1995).
I desperately
wanted to use the "Punch Bowl" photograph of Confederate prisoners captured
at the Wildemess and held at Belle Plain, Virginia. Unfortunately, I do
not have access to the original and all the copies that appear in books
are too small to take observations from. Line drawings enlarge wonderfully,
but enlarging a copy of a photograph does not reveal greater detail, just
greater pixels. I also wanted to use the "Rosenstock" picture of Confederates
in Frederick, Maryland. But that picture is simply too dark and too vague
to get the details needed. A researcher with access to the originals could
possibly shed some hght in terms of my arguments.
(See William A. Frassanito’s:Grant and Lee, The Virginia
Campaigns, 1864-1865.
New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983: 58-59; Antietam, the Photographic
Record of America's Bloodiest Day , New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1978: 39.)
Note 2.
Approximately
one third of canteen straps have knots while they are found
only in a very limited number of haversack straps.
Note 3.
Spencer Waldron,
Personal communications, 22 March, 7 and 8 May, 1996.
Note 4.
AIthough I
did not include Union soldiers in this study, several of my
reviewers have commented that these conclusions could be made for
Federals as well.
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