American Military Insignia, 1800-1851

by J. Duncan Campbell

[35]: Records AGO.

[36]: Records AGO.

[37]: General Order, Southern Department, U.S. Army, January 24, 1813 (photostatic copy in files of division of military history, Smithsonian Institution); also, American State Papers, p. 434.

[38]: Specimen no. 156 in Johnson, vol. 1, p. 43, vol. 2, p. 9.

[39]: Todd, "Three Leather Cockades," pp. 24-25.

[40]: General Order, March 30, 1800 (Records AGO).

[41]: "Statement of Articles of Clothing, 1802," in papers of Purveyor of Public Supplies (Records AGO).

[42]: General Order, Southern Department, U.S. Army, January 24, 1813 (photostatic copy in files of division of military history, Smithsonian Institution); also, American State Papers, p. 434.

[43]: Engraved by Robert Scott after a design by Gilbert Stuart.

[44]: Todd, "Notes on the Dress," p. 10. Also, receipts from George Green and Son, and letter dated August 6, 1808, from J. Smith (Commissary General at Washington) to Tench Coxe requesting "brass letters U.S.R.R." (Records AGO). George Green is listed in Philadelphia directories of the period as a "brass founder and gilder."