. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. center eagle dc\ice is applied with simple wire fasteners. I Following the War with Mexico, many State Militia, especially those in the south, began using their state coats of arms as the principal devices on their waist-belt plates. The plates for officers followed the earlier pattern for Regulars, a round device clasped within an outer ring. Plates of enlisted personnel more often were rectangular, but there were many exceptions. The following scries includes examples of both types. Figure 231 SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, C. 1845 USNM 60357-M (S-K
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. center eagle dc\ice is applied with simple wire fasteners. I Following the War with Mexico, many State Militia, especially those in the south, began using their state coats of arms as the principal devices on their waist-belt plates. The plates for officers followed the earlier pattern for Regulars, a round device clasped within an outer ring. Plates of enlisted personnel more often were rectangular, but there were many exceptions. The following scries includes examples of both types. Figure 231 SHOULDER-BELT PLATE, C. 1845 USNM 60357-M (S-K 11}). Figure 232. This brass, lead-backed badge bears no devices that would assist in identifying it as to unit, and its general composition would have made it appealing to more than one Militia organization. It is considered a stock pattern. The stars-on-belt motif, forming the border of the oval, is \'ery unusual, as are the 14 arrows in the eagle's left talon and the star beneath its beak. The ^ \ 1 1 _\ JS ^fF^^ ^S^ ^ â¢>. iSSi^."'t ^^^gij, s H t f i w â 1 1 WAIST-BELT PLATE, ALABAMA, C. 1850 VSNM 604221-M QS~K 377'). Figure 233. The old Alabama State seal with a representation of a map of the State hung from a tree trunk, as depicted on the inner ring of this cast-brass waist-belt plate, i)ecame obsolete after the Civil War when the "reconstruction" government changed the device to that of an eagle resting on a Federal shield. Some \ears later, however, the original seal, in somewhat modified form, was readopted. Although made in the early 1850's, plates of this type were worn by personnel of the Confederate States Army throughout the Civil War. Many plates of this same basic pattern were made in England and run through 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
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