Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and UniformsWilliam K. Emerson's Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms is the first comprehensive, well-illustrated, fully researched, and completely documented history of U.S. Army branch insignia and the uniforms on which those insignia were worn. More than two thousand photographs illustrate the actual branch insignia used by men and women of the U.S. Army during war and peace from American independence to the present. This book tells the story of the major army branches - infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers - as well as the service and support branches comprising doctors and nurses, chaplains, musicians, quartermasters, military police, and the many others who have made up the U.S. Army. Insignia worn by all soldiers, such as eagles, devices with the letters US, and other letters and numbers, are also described and illustrated. Historians, military collectors, military reenactors, antique dealers and collectors, costume specialists, army veterans and buffs, and those simply interested in the history of the U.S. Army will find this book a useful and fascinating reference tool. It will become the standard reference for quick and accurate identification and dating of insignia and uniforms. |
Contents
Chapter One Introduction 365 25 | 3 |
Chapter Three Regular Army Uniforms and Insignia 17821802 | 25 |
Chapter Four Riflemen 3335 | 33 |
Chapter Six Artillery | 69 |
Chapter Seven Cavalry Dragoons and Mounted Riflemen | 99 |
Chapter Eight Eagle Insignia | 119 |
Chapter Nine The Letters US and State Insignia | 135 |
Chapter Ten Numbers and Letters | 159 |
Chapter FiftyTwo Special Services | 415 |
Chapter FiftySeven Other Branch Insignia | 425 |
Chapter FiftyEight Uniform Coats and Coatees | 433 |
Table 581 | 436 |
Chapter FiftyNine Frock Coats | 439 |
Chapter SixtyOne NineteenthCentury Jackets | 448 |
Chapter SixtyThree Trousers | 455 |
Table 632 | 458 |
Chapter Eleven Medical Department | 177 |
Table | 190 |
23 | 200 |
Chapter Twelve Engineers | 207 |
Table | 211 |
Chapter Thirteen Lyres | 225 |
Chapter Fourteen Bugles Horns and Trumpets | 234 |
CONTENTS SECTION X BRANCH INSIGNIA WITH HISTORIES FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO 1910 | 277 |
Chapter Thirty NineteenthCentury General Staff | 305 |
Table 301 | 308 |
Chapter ThirtyTwo AidesdeCamp | 317 |
Chapter ThirtyThree Records and Pension Office | 324 |
Chapter ThirtySix Army Transport Service and Harbor Boat Service | 331 |
Table 361 | 332 |
Table 369 | 341 |
Chapter ThirtySeven Service School Detachments | 353 |
Chapter ThirtyNine Tank Corps Tank Destroyer Forces and Armor | 367 |
Chapter Forty Chemical Corps | 375 |
Chapter FortyTwo Transportation | 383 |
Chapter FortyFour Provost Marshal and Military Police | 394 |
Chapter FortySix World War I Army Service Corps | 402 |
Chapter FortyNine World War II Army Specialist Corps | 408 |
Chapter SixtyFive Greatcoats Overcoats and Cloaks | 469 |
Chapter SixtySix Light Outer Garments | 480 |
Chapter SixtySeven Shirts | 486 |
Chapter SeventyTwo Mens Headgear through the Civil War | 521 |
Chapter SeventyThree Mens Headgear with Roots from 1872 to 1916 | 528 |
Table 681 | 534 |
Chapter SeventyFour Mens Headgear World War I and Later | 539 |
Table 742 | 541 |
Chapter SeventyFive Womens Headgear | 549 |
Chapter SeventySix Mens TwentiethCentury Dress Blue Uniforms | 559 |
Chapter SeventySeven White Uniforms | 567 |
Chapter SeventyNine Womens Uniforms through World War II | 579 |
Table 801 | 580 |
Chapter Eighty Womens Uniforms after 1948 | 586 |
Table 802 | 594 |
Insignia Fasteners | 599 |
NOTES | 607 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 647 |
ILLUSTRATION Credits | 655 |
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Common terms and phrases
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