Figuie 8. — Chapeau for Coi-ps of Engineers, 1840. Official drawing. National Archives. 



NOTES 



' See W. Y. Camian, British Aiilitary Unijornu from 

 Contemporary Pictures (London, 1957) ; Cecil C. P. 

 Lawson, A History of the Uniforms of the British Army, 

 3 vols. (London 1940, 1941, 1961) ; and R. M. Barnes, 

 A History of the Regiments & Uniforms of the British 

 Army (London, n.d.) for many illustrations of the evolu- 

 tion of the chapeau. 



- Untitled MS, "War Office, Dec. 26th 1786," in Castle 

 Island Orderly Book, 13 Jan.-20 Apr. 1787, Post Revolu- 

 tionaiy War Records, vol. 8. .Adjutant General's Records, 

 Record Group 94 (hereinafter cited as RG 94), National 

 Archives (hereinafter cited as NA) . 



' G.O., Southern Dept., Headquarters, Charleston, 24 

 Jan. 1813, in U.S. Army Command, Post Rev. War 

 Records, vol. 39, RG 94, NA. See also H. Charles Mc- 

 Barron, Jr., and John R. Elting, "3rd Regiment, United 

 States Artillei-y, 1812," Military Collector & Historian 

 (Summer 1964), vol. 16, no. 2, p. 48. The 2nd and 3rd 

 Artillery Regiments, authorized in Januaiy 1812, possibly 

 wore the chapeau for a short time. See Sec. of War Wm. 

 Eustis to Callender L-\ine, Commissan,- Genera! of Pur- 

 chases, 31 Aug. 1812. Letters sent (hereinafter cited as 



LS), Records of the Secretar)- of War. RG 107 (herein- 

 after cited as RG 107), NA. 



^ See appendi.x. 



■'' G.O., Headcjuarters, Fort Adams [Mississippi], 30 

 Mar. 1800, CO., U.S. Army, RG 94. These may have 

 been only pro\isional regulations, the Army possibly re- 

 verting to the 1797 regulations in 1801. 



" During the period of Gansevoort's commission there 

 were no specific regulations for general officers" dress. 



' The presence of this particular button on the hat is 

 not explained, but it is probably a holdover from Ganse- 

 \oort's scnice as a New York Militia officer. Gansevoort, 

 a native New Yorker, served in both the Continental 

 Army and the New York State Militia during the Revolu- 

 tion. In 1802 he was appointed Military .Agent Northern 

 Dept. and in 1809 Brigadier General, U.S.A. Judging by 

 the technique of manufacture used, the button probably 

 dates no earlier than about 1800. 



'G.O., Headquarters, Charleston, 24 Jan. 1813. op. 

 cit. 



'^ "Changes in the Uniform of the Army .... ," 

 American State Papers. Military Affairs (Washington, 

 1832), vol. 1, pp. 433-434. 



