Keith and I got to see Bubba's summer home in Virginia while we were at DIV. Here he is standing in front of it.
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Vernon you might consider building one of these up in the mountains as it has "strato-freeze AC" and a fireplace for warmth and cooking.
These photos were taken at White Oak Museum, a privately owned and donation funded museum of the Civil War. They created several "huts" like the ones the soldiers made to spend the winter in or at any encampment for longer than a couple weeks.
Elson and Vernon, notice all the nails holding the tent fabric to the framework. That's one HUGE reason we dig so darn many nails while hunting these Civil War camp sites.
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Here is the inside of Bubba's summer home, still under construction.
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The soldiers would dig down into the ground anywhere from 18" to about 4 feet deep the same size and shape of the tents they were issued. They would build up log sides and erect the tent over the logs and build a fireplace / firepit in the back for warmth and for cooking. Mostly they had dirt floors, although some had wood plank floors if they were good scroungers. The fireplace chimney's were made of rock and mud and often topped with a wood barrel, also lined with mud to keep them from burning ... as easily.
Sometimes two soldiers shared a bunk, sometimes they had individual bunks on both sides. Anything they lost or forgot upon vacating the camp was in the muddy floor or along the sides of the hut. That's why so many guys at the DIV hunts spend so much time locating and digging hut sites and trash / fire pits.
The huts would be grouped together by Company and Regiment, all lined up about 3 to 5 feet apart with a walking "road" between the front of one row and behind the next row.
[attachment 194691 bubbabyhut.jpg]
Vernon you might consider building one of these up in the mountains as it has "strato-freeze AC" and a fireplace for warmth and cooking.
These photos were taken at White Oak Museum, a privately owned and donation funded museum of the Civil War. They created several "huts" like the ones the soldiers made to spend the winter in or at any encampment for longer than a couple weeks.
Elson and Vernon, notice all the nails holding the tent fabric to the framework. That's one HUGE reason we dig so darn many nails while hunting these Civil War camp sites.
[attachment 194692 civilwarhut.jpg]
Here is the inside of Bubba's summer home, still under construction.
[attachment 194693 bubbashutinside.jpg]
The soldiers would dig down into the ground anywhere from 18" to about 4 feet deep the same size and shape of the tents they were issued. They would build up log sides and erect the tent over the logs and build a fireplace / firepit in the back for warmth and for cooking. Mostly they had dirt floors, although some had wood plank floors if they were good scroungers. The fireplace chimney's were made of rock and mud and often topped with a wood barrel, also lined with mud to keep them from burning ... as easily.
Sometimes two soldiers shared a bunk, sometimes they had individual bunks on both sides. Anything they lost or forgot upon vacating the camp was in the muddy floor or along the sides of the hut. That's why so many guys at the DIV hunts spend so much time locating and digging hut sites and trash / fire pits.
The huts would be grouped together by Company and Regiment, all lined up about 3 to 5 feet apart with a walking "road" between the front of one row and behind the next row.