supplied these feathers at 35 cents each. See "Blotter" 

 entiT. 8 0ct. 1812. 



■'» M.SK "Blotter" entry, 8 Oct. 1812, dealing with an 

 issue of dragoon clothing to Capt. Cummings in Pitts- 

 burgh, RG 92, NA, and numerous other issues in this 

 "Blotter" and its succeeding "Journal" through an 8 

 Nov. 1814 issue to Col. Burn. 2nd Light Dragoons. 



'1 MSK "Blotter" and "Journal" entries, 22 Aug. 1814, 

 11 Nov. 1814, and 10 Mav 1815. 



"= Irvine to Flomerfelt, 2 Dec. 1813, 8 Apr. 1816, CG of 

 P, LS, RG 92, NA. 



■'Mrvine to Flomerfelt, 22 July 1814, CG of P, LS; 

 MSK "Journal" entries, 30 July and 2 Aug. 1814— all 

 RG 92, NA. 



■''* G.O. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, 17 

 May 1815, RG 94, NA; Inine to Acting Sec. of War, 29 

 July 1817, CG of P, LS, RG 92, NA. 



=^ MSK "Journal" entry, 10 May 1815, RG 92, NA. 



^" See Wavcrly P. Lewis, U.S. Military Headgear, 1770- 

 1880 (Devon, Conn., 1960), and H. C. B. Rogers, The 

 Mounted Troops of the British Army, 1066-1945 (Lon- 

 don, 1959), only two of many excellent references on the 

 subject for photos of actual specimens and contemporary 

 illustrations of such caps. 



^' Leather that has been hardened or reinforced in any 

 one of a number of methods, in this case with a black 

 lacquer. 



^' See Le^vis, op. cit., p. 10. 



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