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Object |
Bicorn |
Artist/Creator |
Bent & Bush |
Year Range from |
1859 |
Year Range to |
1861 |
Description |
Chapeau (a) in original green cardboard box (b). Hat made of black beaver pelt. Gold thread tassels on either side and large gold thread circle at front of hat. Attached to this are several silver metal stars surrounding a silver metal eagle. Marked inside: "Bent & Bush Boston." Box labeled: "Military Establishment Bent & Bush, Importers, Manufacturers, and Dealers in Army and Navy chapeaux, Military Caps, Swords, Epaulets, Sashes, Plumes, etc., Corner of Court & Washington Streets, Boston." Handwritten below is: "Genl. H.H. Baxter, Rutland, Vt." |
Subjects |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. |
Information |
The Rutland Light Guard was formed in the spring of 1859 with Horace Henry Baxter as its captain. The formation of the volunteer unit was part of a revitalization of the state's militia in the late 1850s as the possibility of Civil War loomed. In October of 1859 Baxter was elected Adjutant and Inspector General of Vermont. After that appointment he ordered this hat from Bent & Bush of Boston. |
Related People |
Baxter, Horace Henry |
Credit line |
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Baxter |
Catalog Number |
1980.23.7 a,b |