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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Steel breast plates (search)
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 Guerilla, Munsey's Magazine, February, 1905, p. 784. One taken from the saddle of Major J. S. Reed, the Federal officer who fell in the engagement with Mosby's men at Dranesville, February 22, 1864. Lieutenant Ben. Palmer says that he had them at his home [in Richmond] and that he and others often amused themselves by shooting at Reed's breast plates. The other instance: On the same day [February 22, 1864] Fred Hipkins, of our command, captured one of Reed's men who had on breast plates. Many surviving Confederates will tel