[75]: Townsend and Todd, pp. 1-2.
[76]: General Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1847, pp. 192-193.
[77]: A detailed description is given in Military Collector and Historian (June 1952), vol. 4, no. 2, p. 44.
[78]: A partial republication of this work appears in Military Collector and Historian, vol. 10, no. 1 (spring 1958), pp. 16, 17; no. 2 (summer 1958), pp. 43-45.
[79]: Lewis, p. 64.
[80]: Act of May 19, 1846 (Military Laws, pp. 371-372).
[81]: General Order No. 18, June 4, 1846, War Department (photostatic copy in files of division of military history, Smithsonian Institution).
[82]: Insignia of the riflemen are discussed by Townsend and Todd, pp. 2-3.
[83]: General Order No. 2, February 13, 1850, War Department (photostatic copy in files of division of military history, Smithsonian Institution).
[84]: General Order, Southern Department U.S. Army, January 24, 1813 (photostatic copy in files of division of military history, Smithsonian Institution).