GREAT CONDITION P1861 .69 CALIBER CARTIDGE BOX WITH PLATE AND TINS – INITIALED!

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Orders existed prior to the outbreak of the war for arsenals to keep on hand .69 cal. round ball as well as .58 cal. elongated ball cartridge boxes. For example, the New York Arsenal was ordered to keep on hand 2,000 round ball sets and 3,000 elongated 58 cal. accoutrement sets. However, in April 1861 these orders changed. To Major Thornton “You will immediately procure by purchase from the manufacturers in New York and Boston 10,000 sets of accoutrements. 5,000 sets for elongated ball cal 69 and 5,000 sets for round ball 69 cal." This is one of the earliest references to orders being placed for the elongated 69 cal boxes. Orders continued in 1861 and by the end of 1862 somewhere around 300,000 69 cal. elongated ball sets had been contracted in all. Virtually all of these sets were contracted (virtually none being produced by the Arsenals) with the arsenals of delivery including Watertown, New York, Watervliet, Allegheny, St. Louis and Frankford. As early as Feb 1862, contracts were no longer being issued for .69 cal round ball boxes. In a letter after this date General Ripley answers the question of what to issue the many units still carrying smooth bore muskets. To Major Laidley, Frankford Arsenal: “Issue elongated ball accoutrements instead of round ball whenever the latter is called for.”

This box is in a great condition, with very light cracking in the outer finished layer of the leather throughout.  All stitching is intact and strong, as are the rivets that join the belt loops to the body of the box.  The p1839 box plate cracked the leather on the flap, but it is only visible from the inside of the flap.  Uniquely, the box plate is a modified belt plate of correct type and has a mellow patina befitting its age. Also inside the flap are the letters “F J” – likely the initials of the soldier who used the box.  The box measures 8.75” across the flap at its widest point, 7.25” across the body, and approximately 1.68” in width. The outer flap is embossed with a single line border.

This would fit nicely into any Civil War collection as one of the rarer types of cartridge boxes issued to US troops. [cm][ph:L]

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