This comes from the collections of the Texas Civil War Museum with a catalog index card indicating it came to them in January 2000, having been purchased in 1999 at Clarence, NY, from an antique dealer who had obtained it from a family member of the soldier. The identification is to Carlton H. Hall, born in Ogdensburg, NY in 1846, who joined the Union army at the very end of the war, enlisting at Duanesburg, NY, and mustering into Company D of the 192^nd New York as a private on March 24, 1865. The regiment left the state in detachments in March and April, joining the Army of the Shenandoah in which it served in the 3^rd Brigade, 3^rd Division, until mustering out at Cumberland, MD on August 18, 1865. The regiment suffered no battle casualties but did lose 26 men to sickness and disease. Hall had been working as a harness maker when he enlisted and seems to have kept with that occupation after the war, moving to South Dakota by 1890 and listing himself there in 1900 as a farmer and a harness maker still. He died in Wessington Springs, Jerauld County, SD, Feb. 16, 1902, leaving behind a wife and least one child.

The blanket is not US regulation and is perhaps a state or private purchase, made of blue-gray wool with dark blue end stripes, somewhat like the postwar US blankets, but with no sign of a US either printed or embroidered, and somewhat smaller than usual, with 3-inch stripes across the short ends, 3 inches from the edge on one and about 2 inches on the other. The condition is very good. We see just 3 or 4 small holes, no larger than an inch, and one L-shaped tear near one end stripe that was mended, about 2 ½” long on each leg.  [sr] [ph:L]

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