adapting their costume to their personal comfort 

 The cap — the grand difficulty with c\eryone but the 

 Prussians — is, we confess, not quite to our taste, if we 

 rightly comprehend it; but it cannot be denied that it 

 must be peculiarly suited to a warm climate. . . ." '"' 

 Although these caps never came into being as items of 

 issue, they are of importance in that they represent a 

 trend toward practicality, simplicity, and economy 

 which was to result in the single cap adopted the fol- 

 lowing year. 



NOTES 

 ''" Under the proyisions of the Act of 2 Mar. 1821, there 

 were two inspectors-general in the Regular Establish- 

 ment. Cliurchill, who sen-ed in this capacity 1841-1861. 

 shared the office with Col. George Croghan until the 

 latter died in 1849 and \vas replaced with Col. George A, 

 McCall. At this period, the inspectore-general actKelv 

 took to the field in their work. 



^ RfPort on the Subject of Change of Uniform," 

 Churchill to Adjutant General, 29 Mar. 1849, Churchill 

 Papers, Div. of Mil. Hist., Smithsonian Inst, (hereinafter 

 cited as Churchill Papers) 



''' Ibid. 



'^'Sec. of War to Churchill, 27 Mar. 1849; Churchill 

 to Col. Henry Stanton, Asst. Quartermaster General 29 

 Noy. 1849— botii in Churchill Papers. 



'^^ Churchill to Sec, of War, 10 Dec. 1849. Churchill 

 Papers. 



''' G.O. 2, War Dept., 13 Feb. 1850, RG 94 NA 



'^^ Undated memo, Churchill Papers. 



•-■ In RG 94, NA. Reasons for this suspension are un- 

 kno\s„. Crawford's replacement by Charles W Conrad 

 as Secretary of War on 15 Aug. 1850. and Jesup's-lon- 

 noted for his sense of economy— strong opposition to any 

 such change until stocks left oyer from the late war had 

 been exhausted, may well haye been factors 



'^^ Quoted in Henr)' I. Sha^v Jr., "A British View of 

 American Uniforms," Military Collector & Historian 

 (Winter 1955). yol. 7, no. 4 p HI 



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