Civil War Belt Buckle
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 6:48 pm
About thirty or so years ago Dixie Gun Works, a major BP supplier of all sorts of related things, offered what was said to be a replica of a belt buckle found at a site near Mobile where the 21st Alabama Regiment had been during the Civil War. The maker was said to have been a reenactor who found an original and then made a mold and was offering reproductions. I bought one.
Recently, I found a facebook page dedicated to the "Campaign of Mobile" during the Civil War. Several of the participants were popular history writers, state employed park officials, etc. I posted about the buckle I found and wondered if anyone had a reason to believe it was genuine. Well... nothing much other than such were among the several designs made during the war. One "authority" said some like it was a reproduction of one model cast in Georgia. Nobody seemed to know what kind of uniform belt buckles the regiment had actually.
However, today a guy posted that a relative dug one up last year in his back yard located in a relatively new subdivision within a few miles of the conflict sites of Spanish Fort and Blakely. Blakeley is the modern spelling. I'll attach the photo of the one I have as a reproduction and the one the man posted on the site. The genuine image first. My reproduction second.
There were other Confederate Regiments around of course , but at least it's maybe a possibility that Dixie was telling the truth to some extent.
Recently, I found a facebook page dedicated to the "Campaign of Mobile" during the Civil War. Several of the participants were popular history writers, state employed park officials, etc. I posted about the buckle I found and wondered if anyone had a reason to believe it was genuine. Well... nothing much other than such were among the several designs made during the war. One "authority" said some like it was a reproduction of one model cast in Georgia. Nobody seemed to know what kind of uniform belt buckles the regiment had actually.
However, today a guy posted that a relative dug one up last year in his back yard located in a relatively new subdivision within a few miles of the conflict sites of Spanish Fort and Blakely. Blakeley is the modern spelling. I'll attach the photo of the one I have as a reproduction and the one the man posted on the site. The genuine image first. My reproduction second.
There were other Confederate Regiments around of course , but at least it's maybe a possibility that Dixie was telling the truth to some extent.