I also acquired the Cartridge Box shown below.
A comment from author R. Stephen Dorsey when I was doing my research on the cartridge box.
Your cartridge box is an absolutely authentic, federal cartridge box of the fairly scarce pattern that was made without the rain flap. The army dropped it in, I believe, 1863 then reinstated it some months later. The lack of the US on the cover is just an oversight and, obviously, didn't cause it to be rejected by the inspector. A nice piece.
RSD
I received the cartridge box shown below in a trade in March 2018.
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