Unusual officer's kepi
I hope you can see this picture okay. It is Lt. Nathan Edgerton of the 6th US Colored Infantry. My question is about the emblem on his cap. To me it appears to be a large eagle. Has anyone seen this type of emblem before, or can you tell me what it is?
Thanks.
Looks to me to be a forage cap with an infantry horn on the front with a number in the center. The top of the cap is hanging forward a bit and cutting off the top half of the horn. There is also glare off of the chinstrap. There is also glare off of the chinstrap. I can see how you might see the eagle at a glance, but I haven't seen a device fitting that description.
Thad Gallagher
Pit Rat Mess
49th Ohio
Huber Heights #777 F&AM
"...mostly of a rough and class [who] gave a great deal of of trouble by insubordination; but they did not lack courage..." Brig. Gen. Jacob Cox speaking of the 1st and 2nd Kentucky Infantry (made up of mostly Ohioans)
Looks to me to be a forage cap with an infantry horn on the front with a number in the center. The top of the cap is hanging forward a bit and cutting off the top half of the horn. There also is quite a glare off of the chinstrap. I can see how you might see the eagle at a glance, but I haven't seen a device fitting that description.
Thad Gallagher
Pit Rat Mess
49th Ohio
Huber Heights #777 F&AM
"...mostly of a rough and class [who] gave a great deal of of trouble by insubordination; but they did not lack courage..." Brig. Gen. Jacob Cox speaking of the 1st and 2nd Kentucky Infantry (made up of mostly Ohioans)
It appears also to me to be an infantry bugle device with a regimental number in the middle. The top of the device, whether embroidered or metallic, is cut off by the fold of the crown of the hat over the front, but I'm fairly certain it isn't an eagle.
Ross L. Lamoreaux
Tampa Bay History Center
www.tampabayhistorycenter.org
"The simplest things, done well, can carry a huge impact" - Karin Timour, 2012
I would concur. That's an infantry bugle with a regimental number in the middle.
Rob Weaver
Pine River Boys, Co I, 7th Wisconsin
"We're... Christians, what read the Bible and foller what it says about lovin' your enemies and carin' for them what despitefully use you -- that is, after you've downed 'em good and hard."
-Si Klegg and His Pard Shorty
Eyes barely cracked
And with no coffee yet this morning, I looked at it, and yeah, right off the bat I was saying its and Infantry Horn, the top cut off by the disk of the forage... its so far pert near unanimous
Bobby Hughes
Co A, 2nd Battalion Ga Sharpshooters/64th Illinois Vol Infantry "Yates' Sharpshooters"
Savannah Republican Blues
Co C, 3rd US Infantry
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum & William Scarbrough House, Savannah, GA
"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy." - James Longstreet at a Memorial Day Parade in 1902.
I concur with everyone else it's a Infantry horn.
M. S. Maranto
Yup, after looking at it for a little bit, I will agree, its just a bugle with a number.
Brandon T. Benner,-151st PVI, Co. D
-Washington Guards
Maryland, My Maryland - Company K, 4th Texas
150th Anniversary A.P. Hill marcher
BTW - the 6th USCT is one of my favorite units. Co D of the 6th suffered the highest single engagement loss of any company in Federal service, and the chaplain of the 6th also died while in service. Have you read their regimental history "Strike the first Blow?" Lots of good demographic information there.
Rob Weaver
Pine River Boys, Co I, 7th Wisconsin
"We're... Christians, what read the Bible and foller what it says about lovin' your enemies and carin' for them what despitefully use you -- that is, after you've downed 'em good and hard."
-Si Klegg and His Pard Shorty
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