The magazine of American history with notes and queries . doubtedly came from the coats of patriotic farmers who had left their homes for shortservice in the militia at the call of their country, either in 1776 or 1777. The larger of these series of pewter buttons shows the size of the uniform coatbutton as worn by the infantry of the continental service. It was found, as well as 282 MILITARY BUTTONS the next one to it (which is a sleeve-button), on the battlefield of Saratoga, and be-longed to one of the continental regiments there engaged, either to the First NewHampshire (Colonel Jos. Cille
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . doubtedly came from the coats of patriotic farmers who had left their homes for shortservice in the militia at the call of their country, either in 1776 or 1777. The larger of these series of pewter buttons shows the size of the uniform coatbutton as worn by the infantry of the continental service. It was found, as well as 282 MILITARY BUTTONS the next one to it (which is a sleeve-button), on the battlefield of Saratoga, and be-longed to one of the continental regiments there engaged, either to the First NewHampshire (Colonel Jos. Cilley), Second New Hampshire (Colonel Nathan Hale),Third New Hampshire (Colonel Alexr. Scammell), or to the Second New York(Colonel Philip Cortlandt), or Fourth New York (Colonel H. B. Livingston).The Massachusetts Continental regiments all had numbers on their buttons todesignate the particular regiment. The monogram seems to have been a favoritemode of indicating the letters U. S. A. The third of this series, a sleeve-button,.
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