ID’D RHODE ISLAND ARTILLERY WOOL BLANKET PONCHO

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Item Code: 33-109

Wonderful field adaptation of a State issue blanket converted into a poncho garment, identified to Captain Charles D. Owen, Battery G, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery.

Charles D. Owen mustered into service at the age of 19 as a Sergeant in Captain Reynolds’ Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery that was attached to the 2nd Regiment of Rhode Island Infantry at Providence, RI on June 6th 1861 for a three year period. Reynolds’ Light Artillery Battery subsequently became Battery 1st Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery. Sergeant Owen was promoted to the commissioned rank of 1st Lieutenant on August 14th 1861 at Camp De Karpeny, located at Point of Rocks, Maryland. Later that same year on September 13th 1861 Governor Sprague formally commissioned him while on furlough in Providence, R.I. Owen received his last promotion to the rank of Captain on December 21st 1861 of Battery G, 1st Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery. Owen resigned at Falmouth, Virginia on December 24th 1862 due to ill health and personal business issues.

This superb example of a Rhode Island field produced poncho is constructed from a heavy woven, deep indigo blue blanket containing a 3” dark black or navy blue stripe running along its bottom width. The bottom edge is stitched and hemmed with a red colored yarn. Collar and breast openings measure as follows: neck, 6/1/2”; breast slit, 10”, and is fully trimmed in a ¼” red worsted wool tape for the artillery designation. The body measurements are 56” in width by 38 ½’ in length. Still present are four small, three-piece type officer’s cuff size Rhode Island buttons with the “Robinson” back marks plus three button holes. The most interesting feature, however, of this poncho is that it is lined with several sections of an infantry fatigue blouse (four button sack coat)! Also noticeable on this item are the owner’s initials of “C.D.O.” (Charles D. Owen) stitched in red wool thread located behind the left hand side of the breast opening.

Since Captain Owen resigned his commission on Christmas Eve of 1862 there is no doubt he wore this valued poncho back home to Rhode Island and down the years treasured it most highly!!

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