^° Dress of the General Staff and Regimental Officers 

 of the Army of the United States, Adjutant General's 

 Office, Washington, 31 May 1832, Order No. 50, Adju- 

 tant General's Office, Headquarters of the Army (here- 

 inafter cited as H.Q. of the Anny) , Washington, 1 1 June 

 1832. For the colors of the plumes of the stafT depart- 

 ments, see ibid. 



" Lt. Col. Daniel Baker, 6th Inf., to Major John Gar- 

 land, Clothing Bureau, 7 Jan. 1833, Clothing Bureau 

 (hereinafter cited as Cloth. Bur.) LR, filed with Quar- 

 termaster General Records, Record Group 92 (herein- 

 after cited as RG 92) , NA. In 1832 the Secretary of War 

 established the Clothing Bureau as a direct appendage 

 of the War Department, its head reporting directly to 

 and advising the Secretaiy on all problems connected 

 with the clothing of the Army. 



^- Dress of the General Staff and Regimental Officers 

 . . ., op. cit. 



" Unaccountably, the plume on Macomb's hat is white 

 rather than the prescribed yellow. 



'^ The makers of the specimens examined were Wm. 

 H. Horstmann & Sons and J. H. Wilson, both of 

 Philadelphia. 



'■''' John F. Callan, The Military Laws of the United 

 States . . . (Philadelphia, 1863), pp. 342-343. 



""' Asst. Adj. Gen. L. Thomas to Col. J. J. Abert, Com- 

 manding Corps of Topographical Engineers, 7 May 

 1839, LS, Topographical Bureau, RG 77^ NA. 



'' Commissary General of Purchases (hereinafter cited 

 as CG of P) , LR, tray 69, RG 92, NA. 



'^G.O. 31, H.Q. of the Army, 12 June 1851, NA. See 

 especially paragraph 213. 



'" General Orders No. 3, Adjutant General's Office, 

 War Department, Washington (hereinafter cited as G.O. 

 War Dept.) , 24 Mar. 1858; G.O. 27, War Dept., 22 Dec. 

 1859, NA. 



