Figure 19. — Specimen in U.S. Army Artillery 

 and Missile Center Museum, Fort Sill, 

 Oklahoma. 



sible example of the 1814 design. A matchini; 

 waist-belt plate is described below (p. 34). 



There are four different patterns of riflemen's cap 

 plates that can be fairly bracketed in three periods. 

 The large (6% by 5 inches) diamond-shaped brass 

 plate with the letters "r.r." (fig. 22) was adopted 

 fur wear in the spring of 1812 as replacement for 

 the letters "usrr" that had been worn on the cap 

 since the organization of the Regiment of Riflemen in 

 1808. It was excavated in the interior of one of 

 the barracks comprising Smith's Cantonment at 

 Sackets Harbor, New York, where riflemen were 

 stationed as early as August 1812. The style of the 

 ■•r" is very similar to that on the 1812 Artillery cap 

 plate, and the "r.r." designation conforms to that 

 on the button authorized for the riflemen in 1808, 

 The pattern of the second diamond-shaped ])laic 

 (fig. 23), also in brass and almost identical in size, 

 although a ground find, is more difficult to account 

 for. despite the fact that it most certainly falls in the 



I iciki. 2i\. Specimen in .Xiayaia Hisiorical 

 Society Museum. Xiagara-on-ilie-Lakc. On- 

 tario, Canada. 



Figure 21. — .Specimen in Campbell collection. 



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