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Bowie knives had a role in the American conflicts of the nineteenth century. They are historically mentioned in the independence of Texas, in the Mexican War, the California gold rush, the civil strife in Kansas, the Civil War and later conflicts with the American Indians. John Brown (abolitionist) carried a Bowie (which was taken by J. E. B ...
Confederate cavalryman John [B] Dupont[e?] of Dartmouth, Alabama with muzzle-loading shotgun and a "Square D" handle Bowie knife'; he served in Lewis Battalion, Alabama Cavalry [1] 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment; 3rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Prattville Dragoons (priorly Co. I, 7th Alabama Infantry)
George Washington Bowie. George Washington Bowie (1827 – August 11, 1901), was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, commanding the 5th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry and being brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers. George Washington Bowie was born in Maryland in 1827. He came to Burlington, Iowa while it was Iowa ...
Colonel William Wilson and his staff, May 1861. The 6th New York Infantry Regiment, also called "Wilson's Zouaves", was a unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie. ISBN 1611214548. King, Curtis S., William G. Robertson, and Steven E. Clay. Staff Ride Handbook for the Overland Campaign, Virginia, 4 May to 15 June 1864: A Study on Operational-Level Command Archived 3 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine. (Archived 2012-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
Sketch from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1863: a Home Guardsman examines "Negro passes" on the levee road below New Orleans.. The Home Guard of the several states of the Confederacy during the American Civil War included all able-bodied white males between the ages of 18 and 50 who were exempt from Confederate service, excepting only the governor and other officials.
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Civil War High Commands. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. Miller, David, ed. (2001). The Illustrated Directory of Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment of the Civil War. Salamander. ISBN 978-0760310489