Re: [DL] Firearms-related question

["David Farris" <brkredlg@gate.net>]

>	I'm not sure how much this actually helps, but there's a nifty color
>picture of one (not sure of  the exact caliber) in Time-Life Books'
*Echoes
>of Glory: Arms & Equipment of the Confederacy*. I mention this book
because
>it's a mass-market publication, and it's ubiquitous around my corner of
the
>world. 

I would also reccomend this...trust me..its a good source of equipment,
uniforms and even battle flags....though it is a three book set: Arms and
Equipmet of the Confederacy & Union plus Illustrated Atlas of the Civil
War.

I used it to help out in a thesis paper in college...gives ya an idea of
the kind of accoutrments the soldiers may have carried.

Brooklyn Red Leg
The Red Legged Devil of the Iron Brigade
Corporal. 14th Brooklyn Militia, 1st Corps, 
1st Division, Army of the Potomac