I have read over the years varying arguments regarding cap alterations on both sides.
However, I have been unsuccessful in properly addressing the following query.
As a strictly Federal reenactor, I have explored numerous avenues in an attempt to uncover evidence of forage cap alteration for the purposes of size adjustment. While I have found this to be more than common among Secessionist soldiers (kepis, forage caps, even derbys), I have found little evidence to make this evident and therefore true for Union troops as well.
During early to mid-war, if a Federal private was tossed a 7 1/2 and he needed a 7 1/4, did he toss it back and take another? Did he alter it? Late-war questions truly plague me in regards to this. If a private lost his cap, had it blown off by the wind in a retreat lets say, I suppose it was easy enough to find one his size amongst the departed, but I still question whether or not forage cap alterations took place, regardless of availability, for the purposes of size adjustment.
I look forward to any and all answers.
Pvt. Bryan O'Keefe, Esquire
However, I have been unsuccessful in properly addressing the following query.
As a strictly Federal reenactor, I have explored numerous avenues in an attempt to uncover evidence of forage cap alteration for the purposes of size adjustment. While I have found this to be more than common among Secessionist soldiers (kepis, forage caps, even derbys), I have found little evidence to make this evident and therefore true for Union troops as well.
During early to mid-war, if a Federal private was tossed a 7 1/2 and he needed a 7 1/4, did he toss it back and take another? Did he alter it? Late-war questions truly plague me in regards to this. If a private lost his cap, had it blown off by the wind in a retreat lets say, I suppose it was easy enough to find one his size amongst the departed, but I still question whether or not forage cap alterations took place, regardless of availability, for the purposes of size adjustment.
I look forward to any and all answers.
Pvt. Bryan O'Keefe, Esquire
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