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Great Forage Cap with Original VI Corps Badge. ...
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Description
Great Forage Cap with Original VI Corps Badge. This is the standard Union Army issue "bummers cap," first introduced in 1858 and symbolic of the Civil War soldier. Its dark blue wool body is in fine condition and shows genuine use in the field with its original chin strap, side buttons and visor in place. On the crown is sewn an original, hand cut, red wool 1st Division, VI Corps badge. The sweatband is in place but no lining remains, revealing the buckram stiffener and pasteboard crown inside. When the cap emerged from a suburban Philadelphia yard sale about ten years ago, it had a verbal history of being used by an unknown soldier of the 23rd Pa. Vol. Infantry (Birney's Zouaves), but that history has not been substantiated. A very fine example of a classic cap with corps badge.Auction Info
2008 November Signature Civil War Auction #6015 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
November, 2008
20th-21st
Thursday-Friday
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