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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 195917, member: 85&quot;]Hadn&#039;t heard that expression before so googled.</p><p>Came across this forum from 2007.&nbsp; Most of the links are no good anymore.</p><p>An interesting discussion on tinted glasses by civil war enthusiasts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I copied this from post #20</p><p><i>&quot;Ok, so you need another source, and this one with a military slant.....</i></p><p><i><b>The Prairie Logbooks, Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee Villages in 1844, and to the Rocky Mountain in 1845,</b> by Lieutenant J. Henry Carleton, in this book he mentions how the soldiers traded their tinted eyeglasses to the Indians. I can&#039;t find that exact quote since the book was read 20 years ago, but here is another.</i>....<i><b>&quot;Our Chaplain, who was then with us, had on a pair of green spectacles with four glasses---there being two additional ones upon the sides to protect the eyes from the wind.&quot;</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p>Here&#039;s the link</p><p><a href="http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?14050-Period-Tinted-Eyepieces-or-Sunglasses" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?14050-Period-Tinted-Eyepieces-or-Sunglasses" rel="nofollow">http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?14050-Period-Tinted-Eyepieces-or-Sunglasses</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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