PATTERN 1864 US CARTRIDGE BOX WITH REPRODUCTION PLATE

PATTERN 1864 US CARTRIDGE BOX WITH REPRODUCTION PLATE

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This is a regulation Civil War U.S. Infantry cartridge box complete with both interior magazine tins and is typical of those carried in the later climatic battles of the war. Provided on the reverse with belt loops and with retaining straps and buckles on the bottom, the box could be worn with the shoulder sling or on the waist belt. The two interior magazine tins each held a pack of ten cartridges in a lower compartment and had an upper tray to hold ten cartridges from an opened pack, with the paper “twist” of twelve percussion caps from each pack emptied into the cap pouch worn on the waist belt.

The black leather of the box shows some crazing but is free of major cracking. The buckles, latch tab, and sling buckles are firmly in place, as are the closing tab (shows moderate crazing) and retaining strap of the implement pouch. Both tins have their upper tray dividers creating space for four and six cartridges in each. The March of 1864 pattern introduced some minor changes, but most notably incorporated a rivet to better secure the latch tab and the cost-saving measure of using an embossed U.S. in an oval on the outer flap with the intention of eliminating the solder-filled stamp brass cartridge box plate.  This box features a reproduction plate over the original embossed US design, affixed by two pieces of leather on the reverse.

The lower edge of the inner flap is nicely marked “H.G. Haedrich / Philada.” Haedrich had been a harness maker and saddler in Philadelphia before the war and  obtained U.S. government contracts for thousands of accouterments in 1862 and 1863. In 1864 he received a contract for 20,000 sets of infantry accouterments to be delivered to the Frankford Arsenal under a July 4 call for proposals. Although the government was experimenting with a version of the box eliminating the inner flap, Haedrich is noted as supplying this March 1864 pattern (See Johnson, CW Cartridge Boxes.)   [cm][ph:L]

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