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Bookmark or Share- Uniforms - Early war U.S Uniforms in the western theatre? | Ranks ...Zollicoffer’s troops were an amalgam of locally raised slave patrollers & untrained farm boys. The TN State armory's were stocked with relics of a bygone era. Brown Bess .69 cal smoothbore muskets collected after the Battle of New Orleans! There were some muskets converted to cap & ball. Many of the men & boys had personal shot guns.
- Patterollers | Civil War PotpourriPatterollers, also called patrollers, pattyrollers, or paddy rollers by the slaves, were organized groups of 3 to 6 white men who enforced discipline upon black slaves from 1704 (beginning in South Carolina) to 1865 (end of the Civil war), in the Southern states. They policed slaves on plantations and hunted down fugitives.
- Housing for slaves. | Mid-19th Century Life - American Civil War ForumsData on slave housing are much more sparse than on slave diets. The most systematic housing information comes from the census of 1860, which included a count of slave houses.
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