GEORGIA PIKE BLADE RECOVERED AT MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.

GEORGIA PIKE BLADE RECOVERED AT MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.

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Primitive, but cheap and easily made, pikes were recognized as a stop-gap measure until better arms could be obtained and were made throughout the south by small and large manufacturers with various blade forms, including the bridle-cutter, clover-leaf, and simple double-edged spear point like this one. This is 16” overall with a 10-1/2” long blade, 1-5/8” wide, with central ridge, with a good edge and point, showing brown on the blade, with little thin orange in some places and some gray on the tang. It has a great old paper label taped to it reading “GEORGIA PIKE” with the additional note underneath “MILLEDGEVILLE GA,” indicating it came from the state arsenal and other military stores facilities captured and destroyed by Sherman’s troops in late November 1864.

In the wake of the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson in early 1862 Georgia Governor Joe Brown had called for production of pikes and knives by private parties to be delivered for inspection and purchase by state authorities. Almost 5,000 knives were submitted to the State Arsenal at Milledgeville for purchase, as were some 7,000 pikes according to Rodney Brown. The blade size and shape marks this a pike head rather than one of the Georgia Arsenal knives, but most arms of both sorts were still in storage when Sherman’s troops arrived. One Union officer recorded the burning of 1,500 “cutlasses” and 5,000 “lances,” referring to the knives and pikes, with others simply dumped in the Oconee River or taken as souvenirs, though the knives, of course, were certainly the more convenient relics.  [sr][ph:L]

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