I recently came across your channel and I've been watching them a few every evening. I hope you continue to put out videos! As a former infantryman who has spent many days cold and wet myself, I think it would be great to see a video on how the Sharpshooters battled the elements (rain, snow, mud, sickness) etc. I am just curious with them being a specialized unit, and employed differently on the battlefield if this presented any special challenges from their regular infantry counterparts.
The 6th NH Co E has a great Quartermaster. He spent the winter prior to COVID making all kinds of period correct boxes for unit gear. During the pandemic he went through and re-inventoried the gear. Did a great job. Our unit has a general order as well about loaner gear care. We actually require new recruits to purchase their own shirts as their first purchase. Those of us who have had to launder things got really tired of washing someone else’s dirty shirts. We also have incorporated field cleaning as part of our annual drill, so everyone knows how to clean their weapons. Great video guys.
In our Company the QM wears the Company QM rank insignia. The priary purpose for this is so the public will ask about the unique badge and gives us the opportunity to engage them in conversation.
@@CompanyD2ndUSSS I'll put this out there I'm a reenactor as well and preform the job as Ordnance sergeant for unit I'm with 44 tenn c.K. We're based out of Indiana.
We certainly could. Are you interested in a preferred vendor discussion? We have an event this weekend, it'd be a good time to film something like this.
@@Rango37 Excellent! I'm going to try and get back into the swing of things and do livestreams again. Need to let people know we are still alive and kicking lol
How do you recover items that someone has checked out for a weekend, but doesn't return them to the QM, later you find out that he/she has quit the group, are they financially responsible for the items that they check out for each re-enactment weekend ? Do you have a Company financial sign up sheet legally binding them to lost or stolen goods issued by he QM.
Hey, I've got an unrelated/related question. I've noticed your group is marking the canteens by hand stitching all the info with black thread. While I've seen this method applied to some confederate covers, federal ones seem to be mostly marked via stencil and paint. Do you base stitching practice on a certain 2nd USSS original I haven't found yet or is it a theory and doing it with black paint is just as likely to be accurate?
There were many different ways soldiers "personalized" canteens and some surviving examples are just simply works of art. Stitching, ink or paint would be correct in many ways.
