Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 414
of Continental Officer. Armor, Arms, and Uniforms 699 riflemen thus bore a very good resemblance to thekhaki-clad soldier of the nineteenth-century vol-unteers. In the general orders of Washington, August20, 1776, we find field officers assigned a pinkcockade; captains, white or buff; subalterns,… … Cocked Hats with Continental Cockades. called a Union Cockade, and was to be worn on theleft breast. By 1798 several persons were punishedfor a misdemeanor for having a red and blue cockade. The cockades were made both of leather andsilk. The chapeaux bras, which are still worn bythe general and…
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