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This replica Goulding Haversack has a single button flap with reinforced hand-stitching and comes with a small "poke" sack (not attached). This style of haversack was quartermaster-made and used by Confederates.
The quartermaster-made haversack comes from the Goulding family. At least two Goulding brothers served in the Army of NorthernVirginia. Both were from Darien, Georgia. Francis R. Goulding served with the Jeff Davis Legion, Mississippi Cavalry, and ended the war in a hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. His brother, C.H. Goulding, served with the 8th Georgia Infantry. C.H. Goulding died in General Hospital 21, Richmond, Virginia, December 24, 1862 of “remittent fever” (caused by gonorrhea). The collection has a number of objects from the Goulding family, to include Francis’s vest fashioned from a Tait jacket. The vest has strong provenance to Francis, but the haversack’s story is murkier, since family legend attributes it to C.H. The connection with C.H. is tenuous, because it is unlikely that the hospital would have returned a haversack to the family in 1862, unless it contained other personal items. Even then, sending this home would have been an extravagance that stretches plausibility. It is more likely that the haversack belonged to Francis, and that he brought it home with his vest and other Confederate memorabilia. This makes sense to me, because the haversack is clean and in goodcondition. It is likely that Francis got this fresh haversack while he was in the hospital in Charlotte, and the war ended before it saw any heavy field use. In any case, the haversack is an amazing example of a cheap, simple, mass-produced Confederate haversack, typicalof what Southern soldiers received from the quartermaster. - Two Rebel Haversacks in the Florida Confederate Museum Collection, By Fred Adolphus, April 12, 2014.
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