Fort Loudoun Winchester Virginia
Designed & built by Colonel George Washington
1756-1758
Also related events 1752-1764 before and after French & Indian War
Virginia Regiment equipment
The Virginia Regiment had different color breeches in 1755 and before. We discuss uniform differences and changes to the uniform. We find no references to flags, except one in 1754 at Fort Necessity. But there are many references to drums and drummer. They carried the cat of nine tails. The drummers did the flogging. Powders Horns were probably more prevalent than cartouche boxes, since paper for cartridges was scarce. Please see the different links below.
UNIFORMS
Get the Picture? - Blog Nov 2018
This is about the first portrait of George Washington in his uniform
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/11/18/get-the-picture
The Mercer Company - Blog Dec 2018
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/12/09/captain-george-mercer-va-regiment
Who said the Virginia Blues? - Blog July 2020
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2020/07/09/who-said-virginia-blues
Adam Stephen Uniform
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_434858
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/mercercompany1stva/post/2016/05/17/which-company-which-regiment
What is a matchcoat?
https://greatwarriorspath.blogspot.com/2017/02/what-is-it-matchcoat.html
The Flag
Red Ensign or Union Jack?
Aug 2016 blog
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Drummers
Drummers? Oct 2018 blog
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/14/drummers
Two Drummers in every company - Nov 2021 blog
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/the-roster
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Singing, Songs, Entertainment
Why Soldiers Why - Oct 2018 blog
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/10/16/why-soldiers-why
Christmas 1755 - Dec 2018 blog
Singing and Plays
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2018/12/23/christmas-1755
No fun on Christmas in Winchester - Dec 2020 blog
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/christmas-1755-winchester-va
3 Card Brag, 9 of Diamonds - Jan 2019 blog
https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/2019/02/01/3-card-brag-9-of-diamonds
Thursday, February 23, 2017
What Is It: A Matchcoat
Source:
https://greatwarriorspath.blogspot.com/2017/02/what-is-it-matchcoat.html
Many portraits and sketches of woodlands people will show warriors and sometimes women with a blanket or large piece of cloth wrapped toga-style around the body. While today this is almost universally referred to as a blanket, it was known at the time as a matchcoat, after an English corruption of an Algonquian word for the garment.
In addition to breechcloths, leggings, tunics and other common pieces of Woodlands attire, Natives often used animal skins, sometimes with the fur side turned in during winter, as a combination blanket or cloak, particularly during winter months. Beginning in the 17th century, as trade between Natives and Europeans became common, woolen and other warm cloth became a trading staple, used for the same purpose. Wool is warm, even when it's soaking wet, and durable, standing up to repeated years of wash and wear, unlike animal skins. In addition to trade shirts or hunting shirts, Natives would wrap these large pieces of cloth around the body, sometimes securing them with a built or a sash, but never with pins or pieces of jewelry. In time, the simple lengths of cloth became more elaborate, with bands of colors died or woven into the fabric and arranged as part of the overall look. The matchcoat later became the blanket coat, a blanket folded or even sewn into a coat-like garment, called in French a capote, or the more well-known Trade or Point Blanket as sold by the Hudson's Bay Company, what many people commonly call an Indian Blanket.
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