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Post by Beth on Feb 1, 2017 17:24:21 GMT
I've noticed in the few unit's I've done so far that they each contain both a farrier and a blacksmith. Does anyone know why both? Would each unit then have a portable forge or would the whole regiment share?
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Feb 2, 2017 10:05:33 GMT
The BS did his work on post, production. Farrier on post and in field. Two separate jobs. Both considered troopers/shooters.
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Post by azranger on Feb 2, 2017 11:21:36 GMT
The blacksmith probably worked on wagons also.
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Post by Beth on Feb 2, 2017 18:12:10 GMT
Thanks. I can understand how the two jobs overlap more today. I suspect that perhaps then the farrier would have been totally for the care of the horse's feet while the blacksmith would have done other metal work,both would have been highly skilled and busy men at a post. I did google some on the forging equipment so I saw pictures of the forge wagons. They would have been hell to take through the badlands.
It's my understand that the farriers would have shoes they could use but that wouldn't have been fitted individually to a horse. though I am unsure how much custom work would have been by a farrier back then.
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 2, 2017 19:09:41 GMT
Each company was supposed to have a wagoner as well, but I am not sure is this was pre 1876 or post.
There was none at the BLBH that's for sure
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Post by Beth on Feb 2, 2017 22:29:46 GMT
It appears that some units had wagoners and others didn't. Perhaps they used some of civil contractors to fill in for the lack of enlisted wagoners?
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 3, 2017 16:55:31 GMT
You are probably right Beth, I have had a look and all I can find is three and they were on detached service;
Joseph K Ricketts M Company Wagoner (Detached)
Frank Stark C Company Wagoner (Detached)
Albert Whytefield K Company Wagoner (Detached)
You do get the odd on name cropping up like;
Alfred W Dale - Hospital Steward (Detached)
How are you for saddlers, each company had one;
Pvt John G Tritten Saddler Sergeant (Staff)
Pvt John Muerings A Company
Pvt John A Baily B Company
Pvt George Howell C Company
Pvt Pvt John Meyers D Company
Pvt William M Shields E Company
Pvt Claus Schleiper F Company
Pvt Selby Crawford G Company
Pvt Otto Voit H Company
Pvt George Haywood I Company
Pvt Michael P Madden K Company
Pvt Charles Perkins L Company
Pvt John Donohue M Company
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Post by dave on Feb 3, 2017 18:22:00 GMT
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Post by Beth on Feb 3, 2017 19:09:38 GMT
Ian I was so convinced that Stanton Hook must have been a saddler I had to go back and look at the list. He became a saddler after he left the service and then a harnessmaker in Denver.
Muering had numerous enlistments after his First in the 6th Cavalry from 1869 to 1874 as a saddler from there he went to the 7th as a saddler. The next enlistment I found before I got 3fold was in 1884 so I am probably missing one, he is listed as a soldier and was so from then on. He died in 1902 while in the service. I will have to look for his final statement. I personally find them poignant and telling about the soldiers private lives. I do post them when I find them under the Company Muster rolls. I think that since I am editing and not posting new posts no one notices that I am adding more information as I go.
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Post by Beth on Feb 3, 2017 19:15:54 GMT
Thanks Dave. I will find those useful. |
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 4, 2017 16:33:12 GMT
You are doing great work Beth, especially with an outfit like the seventh, we all realize that officers and EMs get detached from their units and Calhoun his a great example of this as he was second in command of Company C before being given command of L Company;  |
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Post by Beth on Feb 5, 2017 23:36:55 GMT
Is there a difference between and ordnance sergeant and just a sergeant?
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