"'■ Lt. Col. Franklin Wharton, Commandant, to Capt. 

 John Hall, 7 Jan. 1811; Maj. Rich. Smith to Maj. Arch- 

 ibald Henderson, 11 Oct. 1818 — both quoted in E. N. 

 McClellan, Uniforms of the American Marines, 1775 to 

 1827 (Washington, 1932), pp. 48, 59. 



"■ Ii-vine to John Fellows, MSK, 8 Feb. 1817, CG of 

 P, LS, RG 92, NA. 



''^General Regulations for the Army (1821), op. cit., 

 p. 239 ; "Comparative Statement of Clothing," American 

 State Papers, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 471. This price rose to 

 50 cents in 1825; see. General Regulations for the Army 

 (1825), op. cit., p. 277. 



" Irvine to Col. G. M. Brook, 4th Inf., 14 June 1820; 

 Irvine to Sec. of War, 25 Apr. 1825— both CG of P, LS, 

 RG92,NA. 



^" Undated, unsigned note in Box 1004, CCF (Schuyl- 

 kill Arsenal) , RG 92, NA. 



"' Irvine to 1st Auditor, 31 Mar. 1820: Irvine to Sec. 

 of War John C. Calhoun, 6 Nov. 1820, both in Irvine 

 Account Book, MS Div., Library of Congress; Jesup to 

 Capt. John Monroe, 4th Arty., 22 Oct. 1827, QMG, 

 Cloth. Bk, LS, RG 92, NA. 



^- Brig. Gen. Thomas Jesup, the Quartermaster Gen- 

 eral, to Capt. John Monroe, 4th Arty., 22 Oct. 1827, 

 QMC, Cloth. Bk. LS. RG 92, NA; Frederick P. Todd, 

 "The Leather Forage Cap at West Point," Military Col- 

 lector & Historian (June 1954), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 38-40. 



»^ Irvine to Sec. of War, 23 May 1821, CG of P, LS, 



RG92,NA; Calhoun toll-vine, 31 May 1821, War Dept., 

 MilitaiyBookll,p. 216, RG 107,NA. 



*" Inmes Barbour, War Dept-, to Irvine, 16 April 1825, 

 CCF (caps), RG 92; Jesup to Lt. H. Brown, Fort Colum- 

 bus, N.Y., 31 Aug. 1829, Cloth. Bk., LS, RG 92; Ir%ine to 

 Geo. Armitage, 7 June 1825, CG of P, LS, RG 92— all 

 NA. 



"'' Irvine to Sec. of War, 25 Apr. 1825, CG of P, LS, 

 RG 92, NA. "Sergeant's cloth" referred to the dark blue 

 wool used in making sergeant's coats and of somewhat 

 better quality than that used in privates' uniforms. 



^^' General Regulations for the Army (1825), op. cit., 

 p. 157. 



''" Walter Transfeldt and Karl-Hermann Frhr. v. Brand, 

 Wort unci Brachtum des Soldaten . . . (Hamburg, 

 1959), pp. 214-215. Cattley, op. cit., gives an excellent 

 history of the origin of the word. 



** See contract with H. Cressman, 23 Apr. 1831, CCF 

 (Cressman), RG 92, NA. For procedures in the procure- 

 ment of clothing at this period, see Erna Risch, Quarter- 

 master Support of the Army, A History of the Corps 

 (Washington, 1962), pp. 144-152,201-202. 



^" General Regulations for the Army (1825), op. cit., 

 p. 278. 



^" Jesup to Maj. F. S. Belton, 2d Arty., 20 Jan. 1829; 

 Jesup to Sec. of War John H. Eaton. 12 Nov. 1830— 

 both in Cloth. Bk., LS, RG 92. NA. 



^''■American State Papers, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 352. 



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