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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Steel breast plates (search)
Steel breast plates
As defensive Armors worn by Federal soldiers in the war between the States, 1861-5.
It is in evidence that breast plates of steel were extensively worn by Federal soldiers in the War of 1861-5 as defensive armor.
In the memorable retreat before Jackson by Banks from Winchester, in May, 1862, which gained for him in supplies abandoned by him and sorely needed by the Confederates, the cheerful tribute of Jackson's Commissary, the editor, then of the foot cavalry, saw in the deserted camp of the enemy, on both sides of the road leading from Winchester, a number of examples of the vest armor of thin plates of steel covered with blue cloth in vest fashion, which had been thrown away in flight by the Federal soldiers.
They were of the style of those secondly described in the following article, which appeared in the Times-Dispatch of July 31st, 1904.
Two instances of the use of such armor are given by John W. Munson in his Recollections of a Mosby Guer