Figure i 



DRAGOON HELMET PLATE, 1 800, DIE SAMPLE 



USNM60283''M<iS-K41'). Figure 2. 



Although from a different die, this plate, struck in 

 thin brass, appears to be a die sample of the plate 

 described above. It is also possible that it is a sample 

 of the dragoon plate authorized in 1812. 



^ The 1813 uniform regulations specified for enlisted 

 men of the artillery a "black leather cockade, with 

 points 4 inches in diameter, a yellow button and eagle 

 in the center, the button in uniform with the coat 

 button." '^ This specification gives some validity to 

 the belief that a cockade with an approximation of the 

 artillery button tooled on it may also have i)een worn. 



LEATHER COCKADE, ARTILLERY, C. I808-I8I2 



USNM60256-MCS-K14'). Figure}. 



This cockade is of black leather of the size prescribed 

 by the 1813 regulations. Tooled into the upper fan 



" General Order, .Southern Department, U.S. Army, Jan- 

 uary 24, 1813 (photostatic copy in files of division of military 

 history, Smithsonian Institution); also, American State Papers, 

 p. 434. 



is an eagle-on-cannon device with a stack of 6 cannon 

 balls under the trail; an arc of 15 stars partially 

 surrounds the eagle device. It is believed to have been 

 worn on artillery chapeaux de bras as early as 1808. 



The specimen is unmarked as to maker, but from 

 correspondence of Callendar Irvine, Commissary 

 General of Purchases from 1812 to 1841, it seems very 

 possible that cockades similar to this one were made by 

 Robert Dingee of New York City. Dingee is first 

 listed in New York directories as a "saddler" (1812); 

 he is listed later as "city weigher" (1828) and "in- 

 spector of green hides" (1831). The eagle-on-cannon 

 design is siinilar to that of several Regular artillery 

 buttons worn between 1802 and 1821, but it most 

 closely approximates a button Johnson assigns to the 

 period 1794-1810.38 



f The question has been raised as to whether the 

 Regulars e\'er wore a cockade with such a de\'ice. 

 The 1813 and 1814 uniform regulations merely 



' Specimen no. 156 in Johnson, vol. 1, p. 43, vol. 2, pi. 9. 



