@escapedone7 I think I can qualify as a “historical man” (unless that should be ‘an’ historical man), or maybe just an antique one.
I have used brief cases, computer bags, knapsacks / backpacks, gym bags, sail bags, ditty bags (sailing-related), duffel bags and suitcases. I’ve even carried diaper bags, and I know how to use ‘em (including the contents). I’ve packed and carried countless grocery bags cum trash bags, and at one time I had a newspaper bag.
But I’ve never carried anything that could or would be called or characterized as a ‘purse’, ‘man-purse’ or anything else that’s so undefined that it would have the name “man-bag” associated with it (we’re not talking about a scrotum here, I presume).
The Civil War-era bags you refer to were normally called “haversacks”, I think.