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From
Jean P Ray’s "The Diary of a Dead Man" published by Eastern National. The
civil war diary and letters of Pvt. Ira Pettit, 11th U.S. Infantry.
September 22, 1863, Culpepper, VA
[letter]
"Paid
$3.00 for a hat, gilt band, letters, figures and bugle like a dunce as soon as
we got in Alexandria, and when we got into New York we all had to draw
regulation uniform hats. Also fine coats and brass scales to wear on the
shoulders like epaulets. But all these fancy things are of no account to us
here. O we cut a swell in New York. Dress-parade and guard mount was worth
seeing!"
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From
the U.S. Army Regulations of 1861
1476.
For Officers – of best black felt. The dimensions of medium size to be as
follows:
Width of brim, 3 ¼ inches.
Height of crown, 6 ¼ inches.
Oval of tip, ½ inches.
Taper of crown, ¾ inch.
Curve of head, 3/8 inch
1477. For Enlisted Men – of black felt, same shape and size as for officers,
with double row of stitching, instead of binding around the edge. To agree in
quality with the pattern deposited in the clothing arsenal.
1488. For Enlisted Men, except companies of Light Artillery – the same as for
officers of the respective corps, except that there will be but one feather, the
cord will be of worsted, of the same color as that of the facings of the corps,
three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, running three times through a slide of
the same material, and terminating with two tassels, not less than two inches
long, on the side of the hat opposite the feather. The insignia of corps, in
brass, in front of the hat, corresponding with those prescribed for officers,
with the number of regiment, five-eighths of an inch long, in brass, and letter
of company, one inch, in brass, arranged over the insignia.
1490. All the trimming of the hat are to be made so that they can be detached;
but the eagle, badge of corps, and letter of company, are to be always worn.
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