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virginiacob

virginiacob

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This past weekend my Civil War reenacting unit (46th Virginia Infantry, Co. F) participated as volunteers for the Petersburg National Battlefield Park providing a Civil War encampment on the battlefield. This encampment was part of the 150th Anniversary activities commemorating the opening Battle of Petersburg (June 15-17, 1864) which led into the 9 month siege of the City of Petersburg, VA.
While there I was able to break in my new Civil War period briar pipe made for me by Randy Ubben of R. Ubben Pipes, a fellow Civil War reenactor and a student of mid-19th century briar wood pipes. The pipe is referred to as a "Hamburg style" pipe and this particular style pipe was a favorite of the 19th century American author, Herman Melville. The pipe smoked like a dream and feels very natural with the bowl held in the hand. I look forward to enjoying this pipe at home and at future Civil War reenactments and encampments.




 
virginiacob

virginiacob

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Condor,
My Civil War reenacting unit is Confederate. It's actually my ancestors' unit. I had a ggg grandfather and a ggg uncle who served in Co. F of the 46th Virginia Infantry. As a matter of fact, my ggg uncle who served as a 2nd Lt. will be captured 150 years ago tomorrow during intense fighting at Petersburg and spend the remainder of the war as a POW at Fort Delaware. The jacket (hanging on the tent) and kepi in the picture look "blue" but are actually authentic reproductions of late war Confederate uniforms made by the Richmond Clothing Depot out of imported bluish-gray wool from Great Britain (the same fabric was used by the British at the time for manufacturing overcoats and trousers for the British Army).

 
buster

buster

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Very cool stuff! I have ancestors that were on the Confederate side. I want to trace our family tree back but have not yet. I have found our last name in some on one records. Just need to connect the dots.
Cool pipes the way!

 
condorlover1

condorlover1

Lifer
Dec 22, 2013
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Thats what I was wondering virginiacob as Richmond Depot was different from Trans-Missippi and strangely the company in Birmingham that made all the buttons for the ANV still has the dies as I saw them the other year. Strangely everyone I know used to get their grey backs from me as I worked in the early 80s for a London bank who were the CSA paying agents on behalf of Fraser Trentholm & Company who built the souths warships!

 
ravkesef

ravkesef

Lifer
Aug 10, 2010
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A beauty. I know I've shown it before, but here's a clay pipe that I acquired at a dig at Appomattox. With thanks to you, Bob, for pointing out that these were common to enlisted men on both sides.
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mso489

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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My wife grew up in Missouri, and I went to school there, where the Civil War was in many places less structured

than in the East, more like the more sectarian chaos in the 2003 war in Iraq. People misrepresented which side

they were on and then killed people who showed them sympathy, and were more interested in settling old scores

and longstanding feuds than anything having to do with the "causes of the War Between the States/Civil War/

Late Unpleasantness." Neighbors would confiscate each other's family silver as war booty. A professor I had

remembered being taken into a neighbor's house and shown his family's heirlooms, with some gloating. This

was not Grant versus Lee, or even General Sherman's march.
That's a great pipe. Melville died thinking he was a failed author. Moby Dick, if you have the stomach to re-read,

is not only a great textbook on whaling, perhaps the best available, but also wonderfully funny. Sleepy undergraduates

who probably read Cliff's Notes anyway, have no idea.

 
erichbaumer

erichbaumer

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 4, 2012
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Illinois
mso489- If it's any consolation, I know I'll be reading that book for an American lit course next semester. I also know I'm looking forward to it, and that Cliff notes would probably result in a failing grade anyway, whether or not the professor knew about it.

 
metalheadycigarguy

metalheadycigarguy

Lifer
Apr 26, 2012
3,624
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Washington State
So will the South rise again? I'm just curious, because I've been hearing that since I was a kid. LOL

That's a unique looking pipe. Looks like it will be a nice display piece as well as a good smoking pipe. Enjoy!

 
twangthang

twangthang

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Sep 15, 2012
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That is an impressive pipe. Do you smoke period correct tobacco in it?

I think history, especially such an important time in ours, is worth re-telling. It is a great way of honoring those who fought and died.

No matter what side it is a time that shaped our country.

 
mso489

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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Anything that gives people a sense of history is critical for young people, who tend to think that nothing

happend in history until they reached the second grade. Re-enacting is a major way to bring to life epochs

other than our own. The Civil War is one period, but the early colonial period at Plymouth and other places,

Revolutionary War re-enactment, World War II, Korea and others, have this same good purpose, as does

the pricey but well-worth-it Williamsburg. I can remember when Truman was President, but someone told

me he wasn't the first President of the United States.

 
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jitterbugdude

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 25, 2014
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I would "barely" consider that appropriate for the Civil War era. Briar pipes were invented/disovered approximately in the 1840's. Although it was possible an average soldier could probably afford one it would have been a rare site to see. Almost all the troops chewed tobacco, those that smoked a pipe used a clay pipe. Corn Cobs were not invented until after the war.

 
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