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38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "S-K"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Militia, as opposed to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of the Organization of the United States Infantry ; and JONES,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of the Organization of the United States Field Artillery."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our National Guard ; MAHON,"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems that 19 were actually formed, made up partly of 1-year men and partly of 5-year men. There are 46 regiments listed in the Army Register for January 1, 1815, and it is known that several volunteer regiments were designated as units of the Regular Establishment and that a... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of the Organization of the United States Cavalry."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of the Organization of the United States Infantry (pp. 11-12), JONES"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of the Organization of the United States Field Artillery"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of the Organization of the United States Infantry,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Militia, with each unit in its own distinctive and generally resplendent uniform. If the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Raleigh Cossacks, the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hibernia Greens, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Velvet Light Inf... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[33] In 1801 the 1st Infantry Regiment directed that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[34] and in 1810 a regulation stated that"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oblong silver plates ... bearing the name of the corps and the number of the regiment for the infantry in 1812,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for the 1812 dragoons, and"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cavalry ... a helmet of leather crowned with black horse hair and having a brass front, with a mounted dragoon in the act of charging."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(1812); he is listed later as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(1828) and"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All persons belonging to the Army, to wear a black cockade, with a small white eagle in the center. The cockade of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates to be of leather with Eagles of tin. [39] This regulation was repeated in 1800.[40] By 1802 these cockade eagles h... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U.S.L.D.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "U.S.L.A., and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U.S.R.R., rather than plates. The letters were to be of brass, 1-1/2 inches"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Notes on the Dress, p. 10. Also, receipts from G... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the infantry platoon officers and enlisted men were finally to have the black cylindrical caps (first prescribed in 1810) with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[46] The rifle platoon officers and enlisted men were also to wear infantry caps, but with yellow trimmin... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Regiment of Riflemen,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; in 1801 he is listed as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and in 1820 as a"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All three specimens of these types are ground finds, two having been excavated after this work was in draft. The first pictured specimen (fig. 8, left) is believed to be the earliest pattern issued. Infantry plates as specified in the regulations were contracted for with William... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Furst executed a die for this office for striking infantry cap plates, designed by him, which has been admitted by judges to be equal, if not superior, to anything of the kind ever produced in this country."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Bit of U.S. Mint History,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The specimen was excavated on the site of Smith's Cantonment at Sackets Harbor, New York, known to have been occupied by Regular infantry during the 1812-1815 period. The piece is struck in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and tinned [the term"
},
{
"from": "hu... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the color used by the infantry and dragoons. It is rectangular with clipped corners that are pierced for attachment. No detailed description of the 1812 plate has ever been found, but several identical specimens are known attached to dragoon helmets made by a contractor named He... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I send herewith an infantry cap plate which, with your permission, I will substitute for that now in use. The advantages of the former over the latter are that it is lighter, neater, and will not cost half [the] price. The present plate covers the greater part of the front of th... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "plates.[59] From the total of 8,752 forwarded for specific units, it would seem that these were probably plates of the new design, but then the variance in the number sent for individual regiments--from a low of 152 for the 5th Infantry to highs of 1,016 and 1,050 for the 19th a... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The 18th U.S. Infantry,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "E PLURIBUS UNUM"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Corps"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "are listed as being"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The present light artillery plate is too large by one-half."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R.R. (fig. 22) was adopted for wear in the spring of 1812 as replacement for the letters"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "USRR that had been worn on the cap since the organization of the Regiment of Riflemen in 1808. It was excavated in the interior of one of the barra... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brass Eagle and Plate, but the 1807 regulations called for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Octagon plates."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FORTITUDINE. The whole is on a trophy of arms and flags, and below the lower raised edge is embossed the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "MARINES."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[72] General and staff officers were to wear black sword belts with"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "eagles that can be attributed to the 1821-1832 period are known, this brass specimen on the bell-crowned cap is the only one known to the authors that has the prescribed regimental number cut out of the shield. The button on the pompon rosette--which appears to be definitely ori... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The letters"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "U S M A in the angles of the diamond, the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CADET at the top of the oval, what appears to be the designation"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W POINT at the left top ... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that was designated the Company of Sappers, Miners, and Pontoniers. These were the first enlisted men authorized the Corps of Engineers since the period of the War of 1812. The headgear for these men was prescribed as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Schako--same patte... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "where appropriate. So far as presently known, this substitution affected only the button pattern--an appropriate letter"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U.S. in silver bullion. Embroidered insignia of this period were all made by hand, and they varied considerably in both detail and size. During the 1861-1865 period the same design was made about half this size for wear on officers' forage caps, and the device appeared in varian... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on both the coat collar and the hat of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Engineer Soldiers."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "hat device. Officers were to wear"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "plates were authorized for the artillery and silvered or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for the infantry and dragoons, as consonant with the rest of their trimmings. In actuality, however, white-metal shoulder-belt plates do not seem to have been issued to the infant... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and there is the possibility that the light artillery had such. In actuality, there was no call for a waist belt where a shoulder belt was authorized. Neither civilian trousers nor the few surviving military"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the period are fitted wit... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W. Pinchin, Philad{a}. William Pinchin is listed in the Philadelphia directory for 1809 as a silversmith at 326 Sassafras Street. The 1810 directory lists only"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Widow of,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U.S., three-fourths inch high in the center. Definitely not later than 1832, it may well have been issued soon after the end of the War of 1812. It is considered a Regular Army item since the Militia did not use the designation"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "U.S. at ... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "artillery"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and infantry the same but"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I, an olive branch in right talon, and three arrows in left talon. There is no outer ring of stars. The outer ring of the buckle is decorated with a wreath, but the rectangular belt attachments are plain. The 1821 regulations called for eagle buttons of"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it has a wreath of laurel enclosing the letters"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "U S,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a plate (fig. 73) is in the collections of the Valley Forge Chapel Museum. It is entirely possible that this plate is even earlier than 1832, for the 1821 and 1825 regulations state that the engineer buttons were to contain"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Essayon... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U.S. are enclosed not by a laurel wreath but by a sprig of laurel on the right side and a sprig of palm on the left. The 1841 uniform regulations specified such a belt plate for officers of the Corps of Engineers, but with a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "rather than... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Roman pattern NCO sword. The plate is of two round pieces joined by an S-hook that is open on one end for unbuckling. Each round piece has a flat loop for attachment to the white buff belt. The right-hand round piece has an eagle with head to the left, wings drooping, three arro... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "US"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U.S. have been replaced by the letter"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "D"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on which the branch designation was replaced with the raised letters"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "U S."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U S"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This plate, which was worn by Capt. Erastus Capron, 1st Artillery, an 1833 graduate of the Military Academy, is believed to be that specified.[95] The specimen is rectangular with beveled edges, cast in brass, and has the lines of a... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "United States Infantry, Full Dress and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "United States Artillery (Captain)."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U S,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U S in Old English, is struck in medium weight copper and gilded. This inner plate is soldered to a cast-bronze and gilded tongue which in turn is brazed to a cast-bronze belt attachment. The oval outer ring, bearing the prescribed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CORP... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The leather ... affords no mark for the enemy to sight at. The brass ... would afford a central object, as regards the body of the Soldier, and one which would be seen at a great distance to fire at."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U. S."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U S. The reverse is leaded, carries two studs and a hook (indicating its use), and is stamped with the maker's name,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W. H. Smith, Brooklyn."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "J. L. Pittman,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "US"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boyd & Sons."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "H. A. Dingee."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The 1841 ordnance manual was more exact, specifying the plate to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and then stating:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bayonet belt is about to be discontinued ..."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the official, full size drawing in _Regulations for the Uniform and Dress of the Army_ includes the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and pictures the eagle with its head to the heraldic left. At least 50 of these plates were examined by the authors, but only this s... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "E Pluribus Unum in beak, three arrows in right talon, and an olive branch in left talon. Stars are intermixed with"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "design that first appeared on buttons of the post-Revolutionary Army and, later on, of the Legion. In its right talon the eagle is grasping what appear to be rather stylized thunderbolts, and in its left, arrows. The arc above the eagle's head is comprised of sunrays, an edge of... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three Leather Cockades,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from existing dies. By varying the trimming and adding borders of various designs, the same dies could be used to strike all three types of plates. Such badges are called"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unity is Strength."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "UNITED STATES."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "J. JOULLAIN, MAKER, N. YORK."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "E PLURIBUS UNUM"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[106] The cap of the National Guard has been described as being"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Canfield and Bro., Baltimore,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA. Its silver color assigns it to the infantry. The form of the specimen indicates that it was probably designed prior to 1839. In consideration of its over-all design and the use of the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "MILITIA,"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "shape similar to that of the Morris Rangers continued to be used, to some extent, by the common Militia. Easily attached to the ordinary civilian hat of the period, they provided the common Militia a quick and inexpensive transformation from civilian to military dress at their i... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LIGHT INFANTRY: 2d COMP. in gold at the top; a shield in the center contains elements of the Connecticut State seal, and below it is the state motto"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "QUI TRANS SUST ("
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who brought us over he... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GRAYS"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Washington"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RB"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Georgia National Guard"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I D applied in silver is identical to one on a brass-bound dragoon cap in the national collections carrying in its crown the label"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Irish Dragoons, Brooklyn, N.Y."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BALE, which may be seen just above the raised lower edge and below the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "UNUM."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sea Fencibles in 1812 for duty at the port of Philadelphia. This cockade, with brass eagle, was first worn about 1840 and it continued in use for many years thereafter. Dates incorporated as parts of devices are generally the original organizational dates of the units concerned-... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ASSIDUITY , appearing above the ribbon with the letters"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A B C,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the eagle's beak and the letter"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "E"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R G and their stippled background are struck integrally with the plate proper--indicating that two dies were combined for a single strike--and in that the shield, ribbon, and numeral"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First Marine Artillery of the Union."
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "PS"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Volunteer Rifle Companies, it is impossible to determine precisely which one wore this plate. The initials of the officer may be read either"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I. B. or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "J. B., for many of the early-19th-century... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cap plates. Struck in copper and silvered, it would have been appropriate for either infantry or dragoons, as both wore"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CORPS"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grays may or may not be significant. A Huddy and Duval print of the Washington Greys in _U.S. Military Magazine_ (April 1839, pl. 5) used"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Greys in the title and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grays"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "VMM"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excelsior"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U S"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "insignia are equally valid in referring to this brass-struck plate with a 5-pointed star as its sole ornament. Dating its period of design poses no difficulty, for it contains the panel with wreath inside an edging border characteristic of the 1840's. The star device would have ... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tigers"
}
] |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W G on this cast-brass and gilded plate would have been suitable for many Militia units of the period. We can only suggest that it may have been worn by members of a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Washington Greys or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Washi... |
38738 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "K."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "W L G"
}
] |
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