"One of One" Civil War Artifact

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[@MrJeffcoley1]

At first glance I thought you were going to tell me it was an early attempt at a camouflage uniform

[@agenttassadar7272]

That's what I thought.

[@chrisj9904]

Same here 😂

[@darrellhamner4608]

Me too. It would have worked as camo.

[@PatrickGrimes]

Same! Couldn't wait to hear how one guy decimated a whole regiment while camouflaged like a sofa.

[@mwblackbelt]

@MrJeffcoley1 it is camouflage. Dude was disguised as a window

[@jontompkins1844]

My wife and I brought home a large piece of driftwood which we later stood up in a big iguana cage for decoration as well as a climbing tree. One day I noticed a shiny spec on it. We picked at it and removed a civil war era bullet. What a journey that bullet had.

[@nez9751]

That’s a great shirt, respect it’s true history of course, I would never expect that to be associated with the us civil war, but it’s also looks like a cool rock n roll shirt for Hendrix or j Morrison etc

[@kennethhummel4409]

At a distance that shirt looked like duck hunter camofolage.

[@THENOAHMOU]

wow

[@jamesorth6460]

From Carol Burnett's Went with the Wind “Thank you! I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t resist it.”

[@pbcanal1]

First thing I thought of.

[@ajbartholomew4499]

Same here

[@meredithc2755]

I saw Carol’s curtain outfit in the Smithsonian Museum of American History in DC, in its own special case. It’s that iconic!

[@slicksnewonenow]

HILARIOUS 😂

[@Relayer56]

Yep. 'Starlet' O'Hara. Hilarious. First thing I thought of when I saw the shirt.

[@buick1955]

The shirt with it's green floral pattern makes it one of the first camouflage shirts used .

[@Stopsign32v]

I was curious if that was his idea behind it

[@lewisward4359]

I made a similar comment and KZbin removed in saying that it violated community standards!

[@marinesnip]

LOL... I was thinking the same thing.

[@hodaka1000]

​@@lewisward4359 That'd be right

[@lewisward4359]

@@hodaka1000 Why would my statement violate the standards? I said something like "original camouflage?"

[@garkmr6200]

You’re very lucky to be able to get up close and personal with these artifacts. I love civil war relics.

[@user-neo71665]

I'm lucky enough to live on property the South had a rail on. I keep wearing out metal detectors. Look up the Camden campaign. I'm in the middle where the south sent the north packing with their tails tucked.

[@johncraske]

The way American politics is going, you'll soon have the chance to get up close and personal with a load of new civil war artifacts.

[@johncraske]

@@user-f44hil126ylI Yes, January 6th was just people being alarmist. The mob didn't want to overthrow the government.

[@mattmarzula]

​@@user-f44hil126ylIright?

[@mattmarzula]

​@@johncraskea cowards expectations and an impotent man's wet dream... Don't worry little guy. People like me are ensuring that the country doesn't fall into civil war.

[@TexasSurplusPro]

“I just saw it in the window, and had to have it.”

[@anthonycrumb5753]

Looks like something from San Francisco in the '60s might have been worn by Jefferson Airplane - "Volunteers of America" - a fashon item years ahead of it's time.

[@davidemmet7343]

*As Carol Burnett said in her spoof of Gone With The Wind "I saw it in the window and I couldn't resist it!"*

[@slicksnewonenow]

Great minds think alike 😂

[@jimrutherford2773]

The drapes shirt is literally a hunting shirt. Imagine if his whole unit was wearing this fabric and leaf pattern, they would have been almost invisible to the Rebs.

[@EmmaRomero-y2b]

No lol

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Would have been a lot brighter in colour 160 years ago.

[@carlhicksjr8401]

The shirt is amazing. 'One of one' indeed! While I'm a Federal reenactor, I'm VERY glad that Mississippi was able to find and preserve this unique bit of soldier-craft. And it fades out rather like ACU/OCP!

[@trueKENTUCKY]

pershing pilled

[@badgerbusiness9059]

Berdan's US Sharpshooters wore all Kelly Green from head to toe, they were used as skrimishers and such. Many had purchased at their commander's expense and or personal expense a lever action repeating Henry rifle that fired fully self enclosed metallic cartridges.

[@TheSonOfJohn117]

I love how that guy came to visit just for the window pun. Great production. Thanks for sharing.

[@helland846]

You're in Mississippi...... I'd suggest it is War Between the States history.

[@valkyrie1066]

From central PA; we lived close to Gettysburg and visited multiple times. It surprises me how many people, in 2023, are STILL pulling civil war ammunition out of the ground. It is VERY common to find balls still. If that doesn't speak to how very many were FIRED I don't know what does. Hey, let's NOT do that AGAIN. I LOVE that jacket!! I'd wear it! and yes, I called "curtains". But that's NICE!!! Look at the detail!! I understand why he grabbed the curtains!!!!! LOL Fabric is fabric! I have kirtles (medieval underdress) made with "found" fabric. (curtains, tablecloths, bed linens) Such a beautiful piece!

[@rumbletruck1]

I really enjoyed this. I notice that you seemingly intentionally avoid the knuckle dusters in shelf 4 (2:02). Those instruments/weapons played a remarkable and violent role in close quarters battles, have been found in trenches and battlefields all throughout Civil War conflict locations, and could have been a good mention here.

[@garypatrick7817]

Good eye …

[@connorperrett9559]

They look like they could be wooden just based on the color. Very interesting.

[@bad74maverick1]

I saw those too. They may have been ww1 era along with the cartridge cases and artillery cases hence why he may not have mentioned them.

[@greasydave1318]

ya cuz youtube woulda fucced him in da butt

[@oneminutewalkingtour]

He saw it in the window and just had to have it!

[@fatfeline1086]

Gee, wonder if the drappery thief is an ancestor of Carol Burnett

[@niftyspock]

Anyone else thinking of the carol burnett gone with the wind parody where she has the curtain dress with the curtain rod still in it

[@ArchiveAmerica]

8:35 That civil war camouflage was next level! 😂

[@inthedarkwoods2022]

Can the public have access to the "extra" stuff you are showing?

[@duffymakowski5400]

Nice video! All I can think of is that skit from "The Carol Burnett Show".

[@donpowlen]

For second I thought that was a camouflage uniform from the Civil War which made no sense. But reading the other comments I’m not alone. Pretty cool!

[@rodplumb]

My old boss was joe dogrin and his ancestors invented invented that back in the day. He had the real documentation and everything! He was allowed to go on military ships Because his last name. Nice guy. He owned an auto body shop in santa barbara

[@rodplumb]

I don't know if he is still alive, but if you get the chance. Look him up is a really nice guy And he will probably tell you the entire history that he was told

[@rodplumb]

I was told from him that they invented the dogrin gun

[@rosescott9299]

That is absolutely fascinating!! Your old boss was the descendant of the man who invented the Dahlgren gun (John Dahlgren), and the descendant of Ulrich Dahlgren who led the (ill-fated) raid on Richmond! Very neat! I would’ve loved to hear those family stories!

[@rodplumb]

@rosescott9299 I worked with him for a few years. And my dad worked with him for about 20 I think. He was really nice guy and had very good fascinating stories about his family!

[@AWBackyard]

I have an ancestor who was killed at Champion Hill. Irish parents came over in 1840 and lost their only son during the Civil War.

[@nickc7320]

So did he have a child?

[@allenseeallendo5844]

I don’t want to be the guy that makes a January 6th joke right now. All I’m going to say is I wish someone stole the drapes and made a shirt.

[@provost5752]

My 3rd great grandfather Pvt Jefferson Sexton of the 61st Tennessee infantry regiment was wounded at Big Black River then taken into custody by the Union and treated. He died August 2nd 1863.

[@SLG-jt1rd]

Is he your only confederate ancestor?

[@provost5752]

@@SLG-jt1rd That I know of.

[@garkmr6200]

Have you visited his gravesite?

[@SLG-jt1rd]

@@provost5752 I have multiple myself

[@provost5752]

@garkmr6200 I haven't but want to. He's buried in Jefferson Barracks MO. I hope to go one day and also go to Vicksburg.

[@mikemorgan5015]

This was the model for the Army ACU that Soldiers started wearing in the early 2000s. Joking of course. But actually looks remarkably similar

[@brockd1218]

There isn’t enough pink in it to be ACU 😂

[@mikemorgan5015]

@@brockd1218 Oh, that's well played sir! Well played. Haha!!

[@terryeustice5399]

Thanks Kris . The shirt was an amazing artifact as made from the drapes of the old Capital. The Flag was in awesome shape. Thanks for sharing. 💯👍👊

[@chuckdavinci9044]

Draperies* drapes is a verb not a noun 🤷‍♂️

[@terryeustice5399]

@@chuckdavinci9044 a English scholar no doubt. 🥲

[@chuckdavinci9044]

@@terryeustice5399 an*

[@Pro-Deo]

It's🤔oK, but I like Scarletts look better as it was a complete masterpiece of visionary artistic triumph~

[@StephenB-c9b]

Why display a replica when you have the original shirt - I went to see the Crown Jewels and Henry VIII ‘s armour (in the Tower of London) both were the real deal and one of a kind. Why hide it away??

[@Royvice_]

My family owned Valley Forge during the revolutionary war and my great grandfather from back then was the high sheriff of the 13 colonies.. We used to have buckets and closets full of gear and munitions from back then. Wish we kept some to send to y’all. We ended up donating it all to different museums around the country!

[@mattmarzula]

Sure they did... Keep spreading the family legend. I'm almost positive all that notoriety is exactly why no one knows who any of your family is. Don't believe everything 23 and Me tells you to make you feel important. You simply aren't.

[@TropicDaKid]

​@@mattmarzulaexactly, my mother did a 23 and Me test and it's telling her "yeah you're a descendent of Pocahontas, as well as the first settlers aboard the Mayflower". It's a nice thought to have, but after all this time through many generations it really doesn't matter anymore. Just like how everyone is related to "some Indian princess". Like yeah, you might be, but so are 20k+ people after you take into account family trees.

[@reference2592]

My great great grandfather owned the Mississippi River and used to give meticulous directions to ship captains about how to navigate the dangerous parts of the river. On their honor, they had to leave 4 doubloons worth of gold or silver in New Orleans if they reached it safely using the directions. My great great grandad died before he could collect all the gold left for him, and the family forgot about it for a hundred years, until my dad hired Nicholas Cage to help find it. He found it in a secret underground vault in the French Quarter. They’re making a movie about it in 2025 called “The Great Mississippi Treasure”.

[@deandalapanda]

@@mattmarzula I used to promote 23andme but recently FOUND OUT that they are selling all their information to companies....who knows what those companies will do with that info... lol

[@reuben8140]

@@mattmarzulaYou write like a redditor who just lost an argument

[@jacobkrause4305]

Thank you for working hard to protect those artifacts.

[@stevesecret2515]

Some of the furniture you walked by deserves its own video.

[@iac4357]

The Union Soldier probably got the Idea from Scarlet O'Hara, from Gone With The Wind !

[@stevewilliams8590]

Something tells me the soldier that wanted the shirt made out of drapes may have been a little…..fancy.

[@kmterpin]

Àgree. I just can't imagine a tough macho type seeing curtains & thinking "I must have that pattern to wear!"

[@richardhenry1969]

I’m curious who gets to enjoy items if they are locked up? Do you need to be in a special group or know a certain password? I know Smithsonian has many items nobody ever sees. I wonder who has the power to let us know what we are permitted to look at.

[@slicksnewonenow]

You'd be surprised at what's HIDDEN from us.

[@quietsloop3980]

Great video. Thanks for doing all that you do

[@ChuckG92]

I had a number of ancestors in Co. G, 56th GA INF at Champion Hill. I need to visit.

[@josephbingham1255]

Excellent collection and video. 7:09 - 10:16 was this shirt used by a line soldier or a skirmisher who might have used it as a camouflage shirt?

[@ronaldsyme8737]

line soldiers and skirmishers were the same thing. They wore the same uniform. Typically, one company was chosen to act as skirmishers when going into a battle. This shirt was most likely made as casual around camp shirt.

[@Iz0pen]

You guys have almost as many relics as Aquachigger! Impressive

[@Fragrantbeard]

My thought too. I think his sheer volume is amazing. Before I saw videos with his collection and the sheer quantity he still finds, I had no sense of the horror of that war. He showed me how ugly it was.

[@splooge52]

Must be where the Army came up with the ACU pattern

[@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS]

Jackson, MISSISSIPPI! I lived there in Hinds County Jacskon MS. I went to Murrah high school. Chastain Middle and Mcleod Elementary 💪🏽 Graduated Jackson State University 🎓

[@Deltawhiskeymike]

* if Liberace were a Civil War soldier, he would've DEFINITELY worn a shirt like that one... (I can just imagine that soldier thinking to himself, "you know, those drapes and curtains would look good on my head and back"....

[@mikereilly7629]

I used to work the Mississippi State Fair in the early 80s - 87. I loved Jackson. So many good people , once they realized how much I love history,I get to see some amazing private collections, and some undisturbed battlefields, being a weight guesser, made some good friends. Miss it. !!

[@Kingsman4101]

I grew up around Richmond' Virginia very near to drewerys bluff. My house had earth works behind it from lees retreat to lynchburg/danville. I used to dig artifacts all over the place, there where hundreds of sights that where not parks where you could dig artifacts

[@HG-mv6vt]

OG Digital camo! No wonder he survived... A hit with the ladies in the bar too!!! 😂

[@CollectingCardboard]

That,..."shirt",...is _certainly_ a cool piece!! Is it conceivable, in your opinion,...that perhaps this was utilized as a sort of..."camouflage" or fatigues...?? That was my initial thought. Not,..."dress attire", so to speak.

[@moredistractions]

It's reminiscent of when Maria made clothes for the von Trapp children from drape material in The Sound of Music.

[@M-113]

I understand you want to preserve this stuff , but it needs to be on display for the public to see , not a reproduction on display , but the actual piece. its like saying lets go the museum to see Dinosaur bones ,then you get there and its nothing but reproductions on display , and the actual Dinosaur bones are in a box in the basement .. what's the point of going to the museum then ? .

[@coribird5177]

"Soldiers, as Soldiers will, took anything not nailed down". It's called looting. Don't sugar coat it.

[@chriskessell4579]

Just get to the point we haven't got all day , most people know what you're saying before you say it , from the UK.

[@mikeross14]

Either you have a small body or that drapery Camo- shirt was made for a Gorilla! Man That thing is Huge!

[@Tysandifer]

Dude just go to the civil war park in Vicksburg, love goin there. Very top overlooks the river

[@MariaTorres-hc5uq]

So, the Scarlet O'Hara dress made from drapes was not that much of a movie fantasy! 🤣

[@notsofresh8563]

Be careful with that shirt, old green fabric dyes frequently contained arsenic.

[@slicksnewonenow]

Commanding Officer - "Davis, that shirt certainly is unique!" Davis - "This old thing, Sir? It's just something I saw hanging in a window downtown"...

[@jacktheaviator4938]

Im a little confused about the Katrina reference, did they recreate the antebellum curtains after Katrina?

[@spencerdickson9693]

Those bullets are huge... no wonder why they just amputated limbs.

[@michaelguerin56]

Thank you. Always something new to learn.

[@luke_skywanker7643]

That shirt would have worked as decent camouflage.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

I love Civil War museums but when museums try to tell too many stories they end up not doing a really good job at telling any of them. That's just the sad truth...

[@kellykeegan2608]

True! This presenter is clearly passionate and knowledgeable but he doesn't need to waste time explaining what a museum is.

[@iammrpete]

NOT A SINGLE BATTLEFILD ENGAGEMENT WAS EVER FILMED OR EVEN PHOTOGRAPHED.

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

I thought the shirt was an attempt at camouflage during the Civil War!

[@stephenroman9015]

It looks like an article of clothing from the 1960's

[@chuckaddison5134]

Please explain the existance of what looks like modern primed brass among the Civil War bullets.

[@TheGadgettracker]

I agree! Bottleneck cartridges did come into existence until years after the Civil War.

[@robertwhite1181]

There were Sharps repeating rifles used by 1863. They used brass cartridges.

[@TheGadgettracker]

@@robertwhite1181 the key word here is BOTTLENECKED cartridges. I'm not arguing the fact that there was STRAIGHTWALLED brass cartridges then, just BOTTLENECKED ones. They did not exist in the 1860's.

[@machinistpro140]

i am also curious as to their presence - b o t t l e n e c k e d - they sorts look like 30-06 or 300 win-mag

[@johndemeen5575]

Brass cartridges? With primers? Don’t think so.

[@DevonaRavenhold]

How fun that he chose to take the curtains fabric just as Scarlett O'Hara did, and create a beautiful piece of clothing from it.

[@syndigriner-owens4351]

I had a similar thought. I was like "omg he pulled a Scarlet!"

[@dustyflair]

I see where Toxey got his inspiration from.

[@Winterfell1066]

Great lecture. I did a staff ride as young officer that went from Bruinsburg to Jackson. I was a young officer in the Army National Guard and the Mississippi Military Depart Historian guided us through the campaign.

[@JackBNimbletradez]

That shirt was the prototype for camouflage uniforms.

[@rodplumb]

Thank you again for the great history lesson👍

[@davidwilhelm3431]

Tremendous presentation, Kris!

[@JD-fd1rl]

Sadly the platform shoes are still missing.

[@zimnizzle]

A real life Gone With the Wind piece of clothing!

[@kennethmcdonald2952]

That dude grinning in the background...😂

[@UNOFFICIALGSPBODYCAM]

Hey I’m wondering I have three civil war bullets from pickets charge in Gettysburg and 6 civil war era coins what should I do? And I live near Gettysburg

[@UNOFFICIALGSPBODYCAM]

Btw they are not replicas

[@swlc5555]

Enjoy them. If you don't want them anymore, write a note describing where they're from and give them to someone who would appreciate them...or sell them with the description. Museums are already loaded up with bullets, shell fragments and coins and would have no use for more of them.

[@tiffanyannhowe1712]

Every video delivers. Thank you. 🖤

[@MDC2020]

I Think this wasn't just a fancy shirt but a early version of woodland camo or a civil war version of a real tree pattern of some sort. The center of the "shirt" looks at if it was a outline of a tree trunk. The leaves on the pattern only make sense.

[@chrisj9904]

Great tour!

[@Justarandomriceenjoyer]

History stuff is really cool take tests and figure out if you’re related to anyone from history I’m related to general grant and the John Adams presidents it’s really surprising to find out such things.

[@MrEazyE357]

Yeah, paying a company to get, keep, and do whatever they want with your DNA into perpetuity sounds like a great plan. I'll pass.

[@ChanceKearns]

1970s couch type pattern omg

[@sircampbell1249]

Shame they can't have it all on display

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

"Nice jacket, who shot the couch?"

[@daryllinkugel3804]

Looks like the first camo shirt.

[@greenwave819]

very cool!

[@jamescrabtree9240]

Fragmentation, not shrapnel.

[@twwtjohns]

Carol Burnett would approve!

[@michaelmay5120]

Spent a very bad night in Jackson on my way to Vicksburg last summer. I will never go to Jackson, MS again in my life. You couldn't pay me enough to go to Jackson, MS ever again, no way. If you enjoy living and want to say alive, stay away from Jackson, MS. I can't say enough bad things about Jackson, MS. Fairly warned, be ye, says I!

[@peteleoni9665]

Don't expect the point to be addressed quickly. But I will help. Union dude made himself a shirt out of capital drapery. Setting the stage for next 2 centuries (-:

[@johnlamont9026]

On the Carol Burnett Show circa 1970's the had Carol spoofing Gone With The Wind as Scarlett O'Hara utilizing similar colored green drapes to make a dress

[@marielarrison101]

Drapes amd window coverings? Reminds me of that old Carol Burnett show episode where they're doing a take off of Gone with the Wind. Carol comes down a staircase wearing what is obviously drapes including the curtain rod across the the back of her neck. she says, "I saw it hanging in the window and I just had to have it."

[@robertvalentine7493]

lol that shirt was not that cool

[@tereseduffy6591]

I know this came from drapes but with the leafy pattern and muted green colors I have to wonder how well this might have worked as a a sort of camouflage.

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

Not very well with a heavy, blue wool coat over the top of it.

[@misharyutubbee]

I wanted to see the hat, too.

[@davewilson9738]

Its incredible that the government buildings then and STILL have more expensive furnishings than your average person!

[@greg7656]

Dumb question: That round, cannonball shaped shell - would that have exploded? If now, what's the point of the fuse?