United States Army Headgear 1855-1902 - Libreria Militare Ares

106 SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGYStates 1882.'"" U.S. QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, Regulations for theUniform of the Army; Illustrated Price List of Officers' Uniformsand Equipments; W. A. Raymold ., Revised List,No. 300, for 1897; U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, The Uniform ofthe Army of the United States, October 1, 1908, plate 20.""" U.S.WAR DEPARTMENT, Specifications for the Uniformof the United States Army, January 25, 1912, p. 10."'"' For this latter chapeau, see HOWELL AND KLOSTER,"United States Army Headgear to 1854," pp. 5-7.""'Ibid., p. 5.""' On this, ibid., pp. 22-25, 40-53.-"' The British models are well illustrated by Roger Fenton'sCrimean War photographs, in GERNSHEIM, Roger Fenton,Photographer of the Crimean War, plates 13, 39, 59,60. For the U. S. Navy model, see TILY, The Uniforms ofthe United States Navy, pp. 128-155.""" In addition to various editions of the United StatesArmy and Navy Journal, for the period, see also Col. J. A.Hardie, the Inspector General, to General Townsend, theAG, 27 March 1871, AG, LR, RG 94, NA; U.S. WAR DE­PARTMENT, ARQMG, 1884, 1890; Proceedings of EquipmentBoard, 1888-1894, entries for 23 and 26 December 1890,AG, LR, RG 94, NA."""G.O. No. 18, HQ of A, 16 February 1889 described thecap in detail. See also U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, Annual Reportof the Chief Signal Officer, 1889.""' No specifications were published and there was no mentionof the cap in the correspondence of the QuartermasterGeneral during the period. The revocation was by G.O. No.74, HQ of A, 20 August 1891."°" The authorization for the board plus its report are inthe Office of the Secretary of War, LR, 12 March 1895, fileno. 2138, RG 107, and OQMG, LR, 22 April 1897, file no.C.L./62931, RG 92; both NA. Approval of the change isin G.O. No. 22, HQ of A, 12 April 1895, RG 94, NA, andthe official description in QM Specification No. 367, approved5 September 1895, RG 92, NA."""G.O. No. 22, HQ of A, 12 April 1895; G.O. No. 39,HQ of A, 21 June 1895; both RG 94, NA."" RG 92, NA.""U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, ARQMG, 1896, p. 5; thechanges were described in QM Specification No. 417,adopted 22 October 1896, RG 92, and the new price set byG.O. No. 37 WD, 12 June 1897, RG 94; both NA.""U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, ARQMG, 1896, p. 5; ibid.,1897, p. 25; QM Specificadon No. 419, adopted 13 January1897, RG 92, NA.""QM Specification No. 419, adopted 13 January 1897,RG 92, NA.""G.O. No. 80, HQ of A, 24 April 1899; G.O. No. 19,HQ of A, 21 February 1901; both RG 94, NA.="G.O. No. 14, HQ of A, 12 February 1900, RG 94, NA."'" U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, Regulations and DecisionsPertaining to the Uniform of the Army of the United States,note on page 13.""Maj. J. R. Myrick to AG, 9 March 1896, and 5th and7th Endorsements dated 23 and 31 March 1896, AG, LR,RG 94, NA.""G.O. No. 39, HQ of A, 2 April 1900, RG 94, NA."'" Those caps attributed to the regular army are eitherdocumented biographical specimens or are from the QuartermasterMuseum at Schuylkill Arsenal in the War DepartmentCollection.^'"' ARQMG, 1897, p. 25. See also, especially for the visorangles: Ridabock & Co. [Catalog], p. 28."" United States Army and Navy Journal, 20 April 1895,p. 551.""Ibid., 20 July 1895, pp. 776, 779; 8 June 1895, p. 682;4 May 1895, p. 589; 20 April 1895, p. 557."" Ibid., 22 June 1895, p. 708.