- Joined
- Feb 19, 2011
- Location
- Germany
Is that an adjustable bar on the iron hat?
Definitely looks like it.
Is that an adjustable bar on the iron hat?
A few more pinterest finds.
Cpt. Cornelius C. Widdis, 150th PA Infantry, as bucktail example with a fashionable model stance.
No party without the nurses of the Sanitary Commission.
A couple of firemen.
And just to show that even silly hats could be progress - we have a not too comfortable iron hat from the English CW.
How would one wear an iron hat?
How would one wear an iron hat?
Gotta love the classic "look away!"He just wanted a feather in his cap
In ceremonial dress, the biggest the hat, the biggest the status (thus the big hat expression.)
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That looks like an extra pair of--what do you call those? epaulets?--on the sides of his hat, that would normally go on his shoulders to attach the fringy things that go directly on the top of the arm/shoulder. I'm completely lacking the terminology here. But he has a nice pair on his shoulders already. Is the dark fan circle, part of the hat or part of the eagle decoration on top of it?
From wikipia I have that pic of Col. John Garland. Said to be taken in 1860 0r 61 when he was Colonel and Bvt. Brigadier. But is the eagle on the bicorn a Colonel's rank insignia, which would mean that his paired buttons would be non-regulation for that rank, or is it a symbol of other meaning which I think is more probable ... and why is it slanted?
... Is the dark fan circle, part of the hat or part of the eagle decoration on top of it?...
Looks like he has the mumps.He just wanted a feather in his cap
In ceremonial dress, the biggest the hat, the biggest the status (thus the big hat expression.)
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37 posts and no 39th NY? I'm disappointed.