WAR OF 1812 ENSEMBLE (carried by John Carter)

WAR OF 1812 ENSEMBLE (carried by John Carter)

A group of items carried in the War of 1812 by Private John C. Carter while serving in Captain Fountain’s Company in the Virginia Militia. Private Carter was from Albemarle County, Virginia. The ensemble includes a flintlock fowler (attributed to a Virginia gunsmith), leather cartridge box, powder flask, bullet mold, and the original War of 1812 land grant issued to Private John C. Carter.

FLINTLOCK FOWLER

Long barrel flintlock smoothbore fowler attributed to a Virginia gunsmith that is stock in hard maple with brass hardware. This fowler is still in original flint. It was carried during the War of 1812 by Private John  C. Carter, Albemarle County, Virginia.

WAR OF 1812 – US LAND GRANT

Original United States Land Grant issued by President James Buchanan (Secretarial Signature), on March 3, 1855. It granted eighty acres of land in Sioux City, Iowa to John C. Carter, Private, in Captain Fountain’s Company of the Virginia Militia, for his service in the War of 1812.

MILITIA KIDNEY CARTRIDGE BOX AND BELT

Very fine leather militia kidney shaped cartridge box with shoulder strap carried by Private John C. Carter, Albemarle County, Virginia. The box measures 9” x 2 ½” x  2 ¾” and has a tin insert that holds twenty paper cartridges. The tin insert was undoubtably made by a very talented tinsmith and completed by a superb leather craftsman. This cartridge box has very fine hand switched leather that is surprisingly supple and in excellent condition.

HORN POWDER FLASK

Very fine back-country horn powder flask that was carried by Private John C. Carter, Albemarle County, Virginia during his service in the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812. The flask was a necessary accoutrement used to carry powder for quick loading of Private John C. Carter’s flintlock fowler or to provide powder for paper cartridges.

BRASS BULLET MOLD

This brass bullet mold is a part of the ensemble carried by Private John C. Carter of Captain Fountain’s Company of the Virginia Militia during his service in the War of 1812.Nice brass round ball mold used to make lead balls to be used in the making of paper cartridges or loaded directly to his flintlock fowler.

ENSEMBLE

Like so many men and women that served in our colonial wars, Private John C. Carter of Albemarle County, Virginia was a true American patriot. His service in the War of 1812 was recognized by the issuing to him of a United Stated Land Grant. Like many colonial soldiers, he gifted the land that was grant to him to a relative who developed a township in Iowa. This fine ensemble presents a fine collection of War of 1812 memorabilia that the Carter Family sold to Mr. Charlie Yost, Albemarle County, Virginia in the 1970’s who sold to Gordon Barlow, Swoope, Virginia in 1982 for his collection.

From Margie and Gordon Barlow Collection