pioneer badges

[Duff]

Does anyone have a template for a pioneer badge? I am making a few for an event.


Thanks,

[MarkTK36thIL]

http://www.thecivilwargroup.com/pioneer.html

This site has a lot of information. You might try visiting the AC's Pickett's Mill threads and look for information there.

http://www.b36thillinois.org/Pioneer%20Patch.jpg

[Micah Trent]

Does anyone have a template for a pioneer badge? I am making a few for an event.


Thanks,

Check with Paul Biccardo of the Liberty Rifles. He had a few that he emailed out to some guys for their Living History at Stone's River last month.

[reb64]

http://www.thecivilwargroup.com/pioneer.html

This site has a lot of information. You might try visiting the AC's Pickett's Mill threads and look for information there.

http://www.b36thillinois.org/Pioneer%20Patch.jpg

the picture shows blue axes/hatchets. pioneers should be white as per regulations.

[Fenian]

Are you sure white wasn't later during the Indian War Period? Bud

[Duff]

US Regs:
For a Pioneer: Two crossed hatchets of cloth, same color and material as the edging of the collar, to be sewed on each arm above the elbow in the place indicated for a chevron (those of a corporal to be just above and resting on the chevron,) the head of the hatchet upward, its edges outward, of the following dimensions, viz.: Handle- four and one half inches long, one fourth to one third of an inch wide. Hatchet - two inches long, one inch at the edge

[skamikaze]

Hey Duff,

If you guys are still looking for some good period axes, I may be able to hook you up wit some stuff I just came across.

Good seeing you at the GAC. Get ready for Hope's!

[Duff]

Nice! Matt Lovejoy is pretty much in charge of what we're doing for tools. I'll send you a PM with his E-mail.

[westcoastcampaigner]

This should be pretty helpful...http://www.libertyrifles.org/researc...erbrigade.html

It's well written with diagrams and dimensions.


Josh Sawyer
Liberty Rifles

[reb64]

Are you sure white wasn't later during the Indian War Period? Bud

pre war and early war chevrons were white, ollar tape was white. regs didnt change until when? the wording says color of collar piping. well if unofficially is sky blue that makes sense, but by reg it would be white I say.