. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. had shrunk to not less than 6/2 inches nor more than 9, point to point not less than 15 nor more than 175/21 and to be without plumes.'' This generally remained the pattern through the 1820s. The 1816, 1821, and 1825 regulations specify no change. No specimen conform- ing to measurements which can be attributed to the Regular Army is in the national collections. The 1832 uniform order brought a distinct change. Hats for general officers were to be cocked, without binding; fan or back part eleven inches; the front or cock nine inches;


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. had shrunk to not less than 6/2 inches nor more than 9, point to point not less than 15 nor more than 175/21 and to be without plumes.'' This generally remained the pattern through the 1820s. The 1816, 1821, and 1825 regulations specify no change. No specimen conform- ing to measurements which can be attributed to the Regular Army is in the national collections. The 1832 uniform order brought a distinct change. Hats for general officers were to be cocked, without binding; fan or back part eleven inches; the front or cock nine inches; each corner, six inches; black ribbons on the two front sides .... black silk cockade, six inches diameter; loop gold 11 inches long, ornamented with a spread silver eagle; gold rays emanating from the eagle 2/2 inches com- puting from the center, terminating in 24 silver stare, plain or set with brilliants. The plume for "A Major General Commanding in Chief" was to be "yellow swan feathers, drooping from an upright stem, feathered to the length of eight ; The plume for all other major generals was to be "the same shape and materials, except that it will be black and white equally divided, the black below,"' that for brigadier generals to be similar with the colors "red and white, the white ; were to be "gold with worked ; Staff officers were author- ized the same excepting the rays and stars, with the eagle gilt instead of silver; tassels were to be gold, with the plume the same as for general officers "with the distinction of colors to designate the Departments of the ; An exception was the Corps of Engineers for which a plume of three black ostrich feathers was prescribed. The hats could be "either opened or fomicd so as to shut like that hat which has heretofore been designated chapeau de ; " Field officers of the line were not authorized the chapeau for wear


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