TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

The tools in this case are the parts of the infantry soldier's uniform and his accouterments

• Brogans-Made with leather-black and square toed.
• Dress Jacket-Used for dress parades and guard duty. Dark blue with white piping and double breasted row of buttons.
• Shako-Tall hat, made of wool with white cotton plume. Used as part of the dress uniform.
• Neck Stock-A Black Band of Leather worn around the neck. It helped (somewhat) to protect the soldier from saber wounds to the neck.
• Fatigue Cap or Wheel Cap-Made of wool with leather visor-the everyday cap of the soldier.
• Fatigue Jacket-made of wool-sky blue-with white piping
• Fatigue Trousers-plain, sky blue, wool-sergeants and corporals had stripes on their pants
• Cotton or Flannel Undershirt

• Bayonet Sling-made of white leather. Holds the bayonet.
• Bayonet-A metal spearlike weapon, detachable, and affixes to the ends of muskets and rifles. Used in hand-to-hand combat. Also used unofficially by privates as a spit, a tent peg, or a candleholder.
• Cartridge Box-made of black leather. Used to hold cartridges. Cartridges were cylindrical tubes of paper that contained a charge of black powder and a bullet or ball.
• Cartridge Sling-made of white leather. Used by the infantry to carry their cartridge boxes.
• Waist Belt-made of white leather. Goes around the waist and has a belt buckle attached.
• Whisk and Pick-used to clean black powder residue out of the pan and the touchhole of the musket.
• Musket-a long smoothbore weapon. The muskets used at Fort Scott were flintlocks.
  

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