A. 



Figure 24.— Infantry Cap, 1832-1851. 



from an upright stem, eight inches long, with a gik 

 socket. 



The cap of the non-coniniissioned officers, musicians, 

 and ])rivates, to be of the same pattern as that desig- 

 nated for the officers. . . . Sergeant major — . . . 

 plume, red upright hackle, [white for infantry] twelve 

 inches long . . . Quartermaster sergeant — the same as 

 the sergeant major excepting that the plume will he of 



light blue. Chief musician — the same as quartermaster 

 sergeant . . . plume white . . . Musicians — . . . 

 white plume, upright hackle, ten inches long .... 

 The plumes of the sergeants, corporals, and privates, 

 red worsted [white for infantry] eight inches long.'"' 



Two items omitted from the dc.scripti\e portions of the 

 Regulations on the cap ornaments are the "tulip,"" 

 which is actually a brass plume holder so-called because 

 of its form, and, in the case of the enlisted men's cap. 



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