thought this section of diary would be interesting reading. especially since Charles Heath keeps wondering what those Triangle thingies are.....

"Tuesday, June 23 [1863] Fort Curtis, Ironton, Missouri
...the camp was covered with rows of white tents. All these tents were the so-called shelter tents--small, miserable rags of canvas stretched over a horizontal bar resting on two forks and then secured to the ground on both sides with pegs. The open gable-ends can be closed with fitting triangles of canvas. Such a small tent is designed for three men, and each of the three carry the parts of such a tent, so that wagons are not necessary for the transportation of the canvas houses.

Eight cavalry regiments were camped directly around the fort....."

Page 177, Building Fort Davidson at Pilot Knob, "Marching with the First Nebraska" a Civil War Diary by August Scherneckau

[The 1st Nebraska infantry had become mounted rifles by then.....a cavalry regiment.]

RJ Samp

The  Triangles Do Exist...wonder how common they were in the Army of the Potomac....

Si Klegg, although a post war novel, makes a mention of them, as do at least two other sources. So, add that to RJ's mention, and that would be five sources for end pieces should somebody care to put together an article.

Dog tents are such wind tunnels.