My name is Ken Friedman and I am the President of Provisional Supply.  As you look through our website and see our products and prices you may think to yourself that this is to good to be true.  Trust me, I have been hearing this since we started the company. Well, this is for real and this is true.

Myself and my partners started the company not for personal financial gain, but for the love and honor of history, the betterment of Civil War reenacting and to make the correct gear as financially obtainable as possible to all members of  the rank and file.

Myself and my partners Chip Zerr and Walt Barger, are long-time reenactors.  We are with the 2nd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, a progressive unit in the 3rd Battalion USV www.geocities.com/nj2ndregt .

You see, we have spent years in the hobby not understanding why some sutlers sell generic items claiming it is from a certain pattern or from a certain year of issue.  All you need is a little bit of historical knowledge to find out that their claims are completely false.  How many sutlers sell canteens covered in that same darn blue wool with the big thick cotton web sling.  Why is it that they sell the cartridge boxes with the acorn shaped finial and the big copper rivet on the front and claim it is a pattern 1861 box??  We all see original photographs and we all know it is wrong.  Why is it  that that's all most of the event sutlers sell?  Why is it, that if you want a truly correct item like a canteen, a cartridge box, a uniform you have to pay though the nose for it??  Well after years of asking that question and seeing blue canteen after blue canteen in the rank and file I realized the answer...  And the answer is, because nobody cares enough to sell the correct gear at a correct and affordable price.  Nobody cares to do the painstaking research needed to obtain the knowledge to do it right and nobody cares to make that gear available and affordable to all. 

Who is Provisional Supply?  We are the ones who care.  We have spent the past year deep in research, reading text books on gear, studying original items, relics, touring battlefield visitor's centers and museums. We joined the Company of Military Historians to gain access to their data and even became members of the National Civil War Museum.  We have spent countless hours there examining, photographing and cataloging original items.

People ask all the time how can you sell a cartridge box, a canteen, a sack coat so cheap???   It must be that import stuff.  Well all I can say is that when you truly care, when you have a sales/purchasing executive, an engineer and a plant production manager as partners in a company all with a shared historical passion and all pulling their collective experience and abilities, anything can be possible. 

So, that's who we are.  We formed this company for you, our brother re-enactors.  Provisional Supply is your company.

Please take a look around.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call, fax or email.  We really want to hear from you.

 Thank you for your support.

 Yours most truly,

 Ken Friedman

Ken Friedman

President, Provisional Supply LLC

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