I am trying to find an image.
It's a comic that might even be period for the Civil War showing a Johnny Rebel and all the tons of crap he thinks will be useful, a panel of him being distressed by the load, a panel showing him giving/trading stuff away and a panel of him (looking much happier) with just the essentials.
I bumped into it in a couple of magazine articles in the way back days of defense magazines I'd subscribed to for T2K.
Now I can't find the magazine or the comic anywhere.
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You may want to try Library of Congress online.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I vaguely recall that same cartoon as part of one of the articles in the back of a magazine issued by the Army. Can't locate it either but in looking, stumbled across two files for teaching about the civil war. Who knew the National park service had such a nice document. (e-mailing them to you).
ReplyDeleteGot the files! Thanks!
DeleteI also remember reading in a book of letters from the Civil War that one Union officer ascribed the high casualty rates early in the war to... body armor.
ReplyDeleteSeems that some enterprising studs were selling body armor that would actually stop or at least slow down rifled musket rounds. Front breastplate only.
Very popular, until one tried to run in it, which meant retreating or routed troops wearing the armor couldn't run fast or far enough and got what all runners get, a bayonet in the back.
Did you see where Gunburka Hobo Gunwriter wrote about us deniers, again? I wonder who is supplying her with free samples of all good things.
(Stuff may be fine in her car up north, but down here? Heat is a killer of all packaged things. I can't leave stuff in my car long enough for it to date-expire before it is heat-expired.)