. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 19.âSpecimen in 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 "; (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 o


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 19.âSpecimen in 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 "; (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 â â¢r" is very similar to that on the 1812 Artillery cap plate, and the "; 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. 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 Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.


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