Hooded jacket?

[BobRoeder]

Hi All,

While exploring the Civil War Drawing Collection of the LOC Prints and Photographs Online Catalog I found this drawing by Ed. Forbes of a "Group of Collis' Zouaves, Gen. Banks body guard, etc." Dated 17 April 1862.

Hope this link works:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query

OR
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/...cpub,tgmi,lamb,

LOC Reproduction number - LC-USZC4-50107

The item of interest is the hood or hooded jacket worn by the soldier laying in front of the others. At first it I thought it might be a balaclava, but it looks like it is attached to a buttoned jacket, rather similar to a modern hooded sweatjacket. What do you all think?

If the link does not work or if it is possible, can someone a bit more computer savvy than me please post the image for me?

Regards,

[Ross L. Lamoreaux]

Re: Hooded jacket?

Nice post. Not only does that look like a hood of some sort (I'm still not sure if that was attached or not) but look at how many buttons go down the front of that jacket/coat. Has anyone else out there seen an image or an example like this?