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When you see the photos of this cape, you'll barely believe that it was used during the Civil War. Curator Kathleen Golden has the story.
It was December 21, 1864, a few days before Christmas. Colonel John S. Mosby had ridden from Richmond, Virginia, to Upper Fauquier, to attend the wedding of one of his men, Jake Lavender. He was, to use a modern phrase, "dressed to the nines."
"I was better dressed that evening than I ever was during the war," wrote Colonel Mosby. "Just before starting to Richmond I got through the blockade across the Potomac complete suit from head to foot. I had a drab hat with an ostrich plume, with gold cord and star; a heavy, black beaver-cloth overcoat and cape lined with English scarlet cloth, and, as it was a stormy evening, over this I wore a gray cloak, also lined with scarlet."
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY: http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2014/02/a-wedding-a-chase-and-the-gray-ghost-of-the-confederacys-cape.html
When you see the photos of this cape, you'll barely believe that it was used during the Civil War. Curator Kathleen Golden has the story.
It was December 21, 1864, a few days before Christmas. Colonel John S. Mosby had ridden from Richmond, Virginia, to Upper Fauquier, to attend the wedding of one of his men, Jake Lavender. He was, to use a modern phrase, "dressed to the nines."
"I was better dressed that evening than I ever was during the war," wrote Colonel Mosby. "Just before starting to Richmond I got through the blockade across the Potomac complete suit from head to foot. I had a drab hat with an ostrich plume, with gold cord and star; a heavy, black beaver-cloth overcoat and cape lined with English scarlet cloth, and, as it was a stormy evening, over this I wore a gray cloak, also lined with scarlet."
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY: http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2014/02/a-wedding-a-chase-and-the-gray-ghost-of-the-confederacys-cape.html
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