. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. merited with gilt spread eagle and ; The plume remained three black ostrich feathers. The specimen illustrated (fig. 7) belonged to George B. McClellan when a lieutenant of engineers and conforms quite precisely, with the exception of the eagle on the strap, to both the specifications as written and the approved drawings submitted by the Corps (fig. 8).'' One par- ticular diflference between this hat and the othere is the plume holder, which is set on the crown at such a slant as to indicate clearly that the hat was intended to b
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. merited with gilt spread eagle and ; The plume remained three black ostrich feathers. The specimen illustrated (fig. 7) belonged to George B. McClellan when a lieutenant of engineers and conforms quite precisely, with the exception of the eagle on the strap, to both the specifications as written and the approved drawings submitted by the Corps (fig. 8).'' One par- ticular diflference between this hat and the othere is the plume holder, which is set on the crown at such a slant as to indicate clearly that the hat was intended to be worn with the loop to the left. The silk lining of the crown carries the label of the maker, M. C. St. John of 118 Broadway, New York City. The 1851 uniform regulations, which pro\ided for quite a drastic change in almost all elements of the Army's dress, did not prescribe a chapeau. As a con- cession to the ranking officers of the service, however, general officers and colonels holding the bre\et rank of general were allowed to wear their chapeaux on ceremonial occasions and when not serving with troops.^* A chapeau was reauthorized in 1858 for gen- eral wear, and this time for field officers as well as those of the general staff. In December 1859 a new style chapeau came into being, the 1858 order being modi- fied "to permit all officers of the General Staff, and Staff Corps, to wear, at their option, a light French chapeau, either stiff crown or flat . . officers below the rank of Field Officers to wear but two ; ". Figure 7.—McClellan Chapeau, 1840 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Do
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