That is a pretty amazing side knife, Mark! As you well know, during the Civil War, North Carolina was split right down the middle between those who joined the Untion and those who joined the Confederacy. While not a bowie by definition of shape, lack of clipped point, this dagger whistles Dixie to me and would have been a lethal weapon to go up against in hand-to-hand fighting. Most of the Rebs all carried side knives in this way.
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