Figure 78 



COAT-SKIRT ORNAMENT, INFANTRY OFFICER, 1832 



USNM1056. Figure 79. 



This rather elaborate specimen is on a coat worn b\ 

 John Porter Hatch when he was a heutenant of 

 infantry in 1845. The body of the horn — which is 

 merely curved rather than looped — is made of silver 

 lame encircled by three ornamented bands of bullion. 



The mouthpiece and bell are of bullion. The whole 

 is suspended by a rather ornate 3-leaf-clover knot of 

 bands of edged bullion and is backed on blue cloth. 



COAT-SKIRT ORNAMENT, CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL 

 ENGINEERS, 1839 ( f ) 



USNM 22702. Figure 80. 



The uniform regulations for the period 1832-1846 

 carry no mention of coat-skirt ornaments for the 

 Corps of Topographical Engineers, rather only 

 prescribing the "slashed skirt flaps to be embroidered 

 in gold, with oak leaves and acorns" like the collar 

 and cuffs. There is in the national collections, 

 however, a uniform for the Corps that corresponds 

 with 1839 regulations in every way except that the 

 coat skirts carry this ornament — a shield within a 

 wreath of oak leaves — of gold embroidery. The 

 device appears to be of the sam^e vintage as the other 

 embroiderv on the coat. 



Figure 80 



% Although the 1832 uniform regulations make no 

 inention of swords for noncommissioned officers, in 

 1833 the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, 

 Massachusetts, began the manufacture of a new 

 sword for the Regular artillery. Based on a European 

 pattern, this weapon was the popular conception of 

 the short Roman stabbing sword, or gladius. In 1834 

 this weapon was also authorized for infantry non- 

 conimissioned officers. ^- 



FiGURE 79 



"- Regulations Jor the Government of the Ordnanci 

 p. 54; and Harold L. Peterson, pp. 42-43 



Department, 



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