United States Army Headgear 1855-1902 - Libreria Militare Ares

NUMBER 3097OQMG, Reg. LR, Clothing, RG 92, NA.""G.O. No. 54, HQ of A, 15 December 1845, RG 94,NA.'"'G.O. No. 1 WD, 30 January 1854; see OQMG, LS,Clothing, RG 92, NA, for the period 1854-1858 for numerousdirectives to the Philadelphia Depot for such issues.'"'Sibley (for Jesup) to Maj. H. C. Wayne, Asst. QM,Phila., 25 September 1857, OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92,NA.'"'Jesup to Thomas, Phila., 25 October 1858 and 25January 1859, both OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.'"'Ibid.; Jesup to Thomas, Phila., 23 December 1858 andJesup to Capt. Van Vliet, Ft. Leavenworth, 23 November1858, both OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.'""See Jesup to Thomas, Phila., 29 January 1859, OGMG,LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.'""G.O. No. 20 WD, 6 August 1860, RG 94, NA.'"' See MCBARRON AND TODD, "U.S. Light Artillery Companies,Dress, 1857-1872." The Uniform Regulations of1861 clearly stated: "For Companies of Artillery equippedas Light Artillery, the old pattern uniform cap, with redhorsehair plume, cord and tassel."'""On this, see Thomas to Jesup, 22 April 1859, OQMG,Reg. LR, Clothing; Sibley (for Jesup) to Lt. H. W. Closson,1st Arty., 20 June 1859, OQMG, LS, Clothing; Sibley (forJesup), to Lt. Henry Benson, 2d Arty., 29 Sept. 1859,OQMG, LS, Clothing; all RG 92, NA.'""Sibley (for Jesup) to Thomas, 25 June 1859, OQMG,LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.""See note 166 and Sibley (for Jesup) to Thomas, 6April 1860, OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA. Whetherthe caps issued were the original 1851 pattern with the redband or the 1854 pattern with merely the red welt on thedark blue band is unknown.'"LORD, Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia, p. 305.Unfortunately, Lord does not give his source in this instance.'"Crosman to Capt. Martin, MSK, 24 September 1863,press copies of LS, Depot QM, Phila., RG 92, NA. Theunit was apparently the "23d Independent Battery LightArtillery." See DYER, A Compendium of the War of theRebellion, vol. 3, p. 1401.'"Capt. A. J. Perry (for Meigs) to Lt. Henry, 7 Nov.1863, OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA; Uniform Regulationsfor the Army of the United States, 1861, pp. 12-13."^ Perry (for Meigs) to Vinton, 11 December 1863,OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.""Vinton to OAC & E, Phila., Reg. LR, OAC & E, 14December 1863, RG 92, NA."* Statements of Clothing and Equipage on Hand or Duefrom Contracts, 1860-1864, RG 92, NA. There were 1195on hand on 31 January 1864.'" Contract with Dare in Branch E, Regular Supplies,Contracts, Box 50, RG 92, and in RG 217; contract withHorstmann in Branch E, Regular Supplies, Contracts, Box102, RG 92; all NA.'" Statements of Clothing and Equipage on Hand or Duefrom Contracts, 1860-1864, RG 92; Registers of ContractsRelating to the Supplying of Clothing and Equipage, August1862-November 1874, RG 92; both NA. Although theseregisters cover only the activities of the Philadelphia Depot,no contract for these caps let by either the New York Depotor the Cincinnati Depot has been found. Although by lawall Army contracts were to be reported to the Congress andpublished in executive documents, there are gaps in suchduring the Civil War period."° For an excellent discussion of the contract system usedduring the Civil War, see RiscH, Quartermaster Support ofthe Army, pp. 338-357 and esp. p. 353."" See OQMG, LS, Clothing, 1863-1864, RG 92, NA."'Meigs to Vinton, 27 April 1864, OQMG, LS, Clothing;Vinton to OAC & E, Phila., 29 April 1864, Reg. LR, OAC& E; both RG 92, NA. Why New Orleans requisitioned somany of these caps is unknown. As of June 1865, 1500 ofthem were reported as still being on hand at that depot.See U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, ARQMG, 1865, p. 81."'Meigs to Crosman, 7 June 1864, OQMG, LS, Clothing,RG 92, NA."'Crosman to Meigs, 8 June, 13 June, 1864, OQMG,Reg. LR, Clothing, RG 92, NA."•"CO. No. 220 WD, 1 July 1864, RG 94, NA."^Report of board of officers established by S.O. No. 31,HQ of A, 11 February 1862, AGO, LR, 216-B-1862, RG94, NA.'*" Illustrated Catalogue of Arms and Military Goods, p. 48."' Although the introduction to Uniform Regulations forthe Army of the United States, 1861, dates the photographsas 1861 or 1862, the dating error that was discovered somemonths after publication was corrected in an annotated notein Military Collector and Historian, vol. 19, no. 3 (Fall1962), pp. 91-92."' Actually, the issues directed by OQMG were confinedto elements of the 3d Arty at Ft. Trumbull, Conn., and ofthe 2d Arty at Ft. McHenry, Md., where the units wererefilling depleted ranks. See Meigs to Vinton, NY, 15August 1864; Meigs to Perry, Phila., 28 September 1864;Meigs to Col. Biggs, Phila., 23 November 1864; Meigs toBiggs, 13 and 17 December 1864; Meigs to Col. McKim,Phila., 7 April 1865; all OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.Regarding restrictions on issues of the cap, see Meigs toMaj. Fred Walker, Army of the Tennessee, 8 December1864, and Meigs to Capt. Bowman, Baltimore, 17 December1864, both OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA.'^"Exec. Doc. No. 84, 38th Congress, 2d Session, House;ARQMG, pp. 72-73, 85.'""Act of 28 July 1866, as quoted in SPAULDING, TheUnited States Army in War and Peace, p. 340; G.O. No. 139WD, 28 September 1865, RG 94, NA.'"'Act of 3 March 1869, and G.O. No. 6, HQ of A,February 1869, RG 94, NA.'"' On these issues, see OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NAfor the period. For the prohibition on issue to other thanmounted batteries, see Perry (for Meigs) to Col. Brooks,Ft. McHenry, Md., 29 October 1867, OQMG, LS, Clothing,RG 92, NA. There are numerous other references tothis prohibition in OQMG, LS, Clothing, all the way to1872.'"' For these photos see Military Collector and Historian,vol. 15 (Spring 1963), p. 21, and vol. 16 (Summer 1964),p. 52.'"'On this, see OQMG, LS, Clothing, RG 92, NA, for