Fifth Corps—a Maltese cross: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third.
Sixth Corps—a cross: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third. (Light Division, green.)
Eleventh Corps—a crescent: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third.
Twelfth Corps—a star: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third.
The sizes and colors will be according to pattern.
By command of
Major-General Hooker,
S. Williams, A.A.G.
Accompanying this order were paper patterns pasted on a fly-leaf, illustrating the size and color required. It will be seen that the badges figured in the color-plates are much reduced in size. Diligent inquiry and research in the departments at Washington fail to discover any of the patterns referred to, or their dimensions; but there are veterans living who have preserved the first badge issued to them in pursuance of this circular, from which it is inferred that the patterns were of a size to please the eye rather than to conform to any uniform scale of measurement. A trefoil which I have measured is about an inch and seven-eighths each way. It is a copy of an original. The stem is straight, turning neither to the right nor left.
The arms of the Fifth Corps badge are often figured as concave, whereas those of a Maltese cross are straight. This is believed to be a deviation from the original in the minds of many veterans who wore them, and they are changed accordingly in the color-plate.