Army Blue: The Uniform of Uncle Sam's Regulars 1848- from novices looking for suggestions

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This pictorial and collectors' guide provides an alphabetic listing of all known shapes and their makers

285 color photos

Ordnance Department/Bureau and the Treasury Department and surviving examples of the revolvers

Additionally there is a brief description of the pattern of helmet worn by many of these regiments prior to 1842/47

Army Blue: The Uniform of Uncle Sam's Regulars 1848- from novices looking for suggestionsTable of Contents In this new, extensively researched volume, U. S. Army uniforms including enlisted soldiers, officers, insignia, and headgear from the years 1848 1873 are examined in exacting detail. For the first time, original accounts from official reports, diaries, and other primary sources will be combined with color photographs of extraordinary surviving specimens, hundreds of important black and white images, as well as artwork from the