Did the Confederate States use a plain oval CS buckle during the Civil War?
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I believe the CS Oval buckles existed, but the number found may be extremely low, as they were not actual issued gear as with the Union buckles.
From the Hanover Brass website:
Captioned:
Several of the buckles in the Virginia Historical Society's Maryland-Steuart Collection, Richmond, VA that I used to cast my master patterns.
The image isn't great, but it lists a museum source.The CS ovals appear irregular, which would coincide with the PBS story concerning civil war buckles:
...as the original Confederate buckle-makers were usually amateurs, and their lackadaisical craftsmanship is easy to replicate.
This points out the buckles were not mass produced like those of the North.
In the North, the Union had the industrial resources and was able to die-stamp as many as a million of these buckles.
Back on the Hanover Brass site, this page provides images of several CS Oval buckles, and lists the source location where the original was 'dug'. The page also contains an image of a Confederate soldier wearing a CS oval buckle.
The image is also repeated thoughout the web in other locations, but I cannot find an original source for it. I did scan the National Archives civil war photo collection, but found no image there of a Confederate soldier wearing a CS Oval.
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The Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1864, in the section on uniforms states (on page 409) that:
Sword Belt Plate
For all officers and enlisted men - gilt, rectangular: two inches wide, with a raised bright rim; a silver wreath of laurel encircling the "arms of the Confederate States."
The Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1862, uses identical wording (page 405).
Similarly, this book on the Uniform and Dress of the Army of the Confederate States printed in 1861, also uses the same wording to describe the belt buckle (which is matched in the illustrations of the uniforms).
which suggests that if these "CS" buckles did exist, they were either not used on sword belts or they were non-regulation (at least between 1862-4).
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