The most common caps worn during the Civil War. Consisting of: Forage cap, Kepi, McDowell cap, and several "hybrid" versions. All video rights go to Inecom Entertainment Company not to me.
This is just one of the best and most informative videos i have seen i a long time. High production quality, clear information and good naming. Thanks a lot!
Back in the early 60's there was a sort of a used stuff store on Germantown Ave in Philadelphia. in the store was a wooden crate full of kepis from both sides, North and South, with a price posted of $5.00 each. So if anyone knows how to go back in time could you please drop me off...OH! Wait! back in the middle 60's a store in Glenside PA had a window full of flintlock pistols marked $35.00 and in 1951 a gun shop in Pittsburgh had a minty Sharpes carbine in a cavalry scabbard @ $35.00 also
Got one better, an army surplus in NC toward the coast I forget where had just 15 years ago 1863 Yankee canvas haversacks for 25 bucks, I bought up the rest, were 8 left apparently they had hundreds and sold them since the 1970's and then a place (another army surplus) near smokey mountain knife works in Tennessee just 7 years ago they had 15 or 16 various kepi's all the real deal for sure, they were priced from 50 to 1000 bucks, I got 5 for 2500. Guns are a easy find, some still in pawn shops believe it or not, but finding any authentic real deal clothing is a bit harder for sure. Side note, but, The best was a tailor made artillery LT kepi red with dark blue bank and it's braid, it had VA buttons but no chin strap which I didn't mind, the other pretty one was obviously an officer that was poorer and probably voted to that rank, but it was a plain butternut bummer style with two rows braid that were sewn at separate time indicating a promotion from LT to Capt or Maj since a second row was added on all four sides with an Austrian pattern on top and a single row sewn just above the band which had a pretty cut gold strip taken from what looks like a gold officer sash, now it did have a thick painted chin strap and pre war US sheild buttons with a "C" in the middle.
@@hissyhonker220 Well no mater what you or I could recall Craig Caba beat us both. he lived in Harrisburg PA. His father had a friend who was a buyer for the Smithsonian. Sometimes if they desired a piece the seller would insist it was all or nothing, the institute would take the piece they wanted and couldn't care about the rest. The friend would ask Craigs father if he was interested. He was basically giving the stuff away. Craig amassed a huge collection in the 60's, that later in life, part of it became part of Howard Wert's Museum in Gettysburg. Craig and I were both in high school at the time, our fathers were friends. Sometimes Craig would show me stuff his Dad just bought. The one piece I remember was a Confederate Officers tunic nice double breasted, gold buttons. The Friend had sold it to his Dad for $12. They acquired a huge collection of Civil war items for peanuts. Part of Craigs collection was stolen from the Wert's Museum in a burglary www.pennlive.com/midstate/2014/02/wert_collection_civil_war_cumb.html
Same here! Just rewatched the movie "GETTYSBURG" If anyone know what or why the red emblem/color mean? ... Im referring to the battle of "little round top" can someone TELL me?
@@rjs1jd It depends on where and how its used. Both sides, red piping is typically a sign of artillery other than specific units (10th TN for example) It could also be the color of a corps badge, which change and fluctuate per unit
......where....do...you...think...they...got...the...idea? The first "Baseball cap" dates back to the 1860 ....that is the same time frame you git... even the idea of baseball cards dates to when Soldiers would send their Tin photographs home, one man takes the pics and sends it home to the troops families. That is where collector came from, when a family died of cholera and there was no one to send them to or didn't have a fixed address for them, they would have huge collections they would trade. Oh you got a Grant, Ill trade you my six different pictographs of George B McClellan...the trade was not accepted imho you should not have stopped learning, and if you're a kid and still learning/going to school...don't stop learning, when you do, you become stupid with your self assurances of being intelligent, then you're no different from the old people with IQ less then 100
I had a McDowell that I loved that became sun faded and warped by rain. With a bit of my own greying beard it made a particularly veteran look. And I never used it for forage, but did use it to carry off supper when company first sgt issued rations off of a gum blanket (as a re-enactor).
Did you ever just wear it casually around? How much did you pay for yours? How long did it last and just how often did you wear it? Sorry, trying to get a better understanding of how much wear these can take.
I've seem to notice that the Federals adorned their kepi's with pins mostly on the flat top of the cap, whereas the Confederates mainly added insignia to the front of the cap. I'm sure this wasn't universal, but is seen often.
Thanks a lot,! I’ve been trying to find out what the number of strands on the quatrefoil meant forever. I’d heard it designated field grade officers but couldn’t find a source to confirm.
There are many German fraternities where this style of hat has been worn since the 19. century. You might want to search for "Stürmer Studentenverbindung".
@@wizardofahhhs759 Goober Grabber is only about $50 bucks more for a handmade museum-quality reproduction and he can do all sorts of custom headwear as well. Dirty Billies costs more but his work is just as good if not better and he does customs as well. I know a fellow who makes handmade forage caps for about $60, good quality good-quality construction and materials, not quite museum quality but still look really good, much better than Blockade Runner.
Stephen Andersen I think forage comes from the french Fourager. Which in military terms is the quarter master. Thus meaning Government Issue. I've never heard of headgear being named after it's use for foraging food.
@ I actually ordered one in the Mcdowell style and modified it to fit my needs. I have recently gained more confidence and have been wearing it everywhere. People actually compliment me on it quite often.
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@@yeenosaur2620 ohh that sounds cool, I'm going to wear a union Kepi haha. Do you wear a union or confederate mcDowell?
Great subject and clip. Often too I think the original Government / Army issue "Forage Cap" is often wrongly called a 'Kepi", as they look similar; your clip shows us the difference. I believe the original US Army dress regulations stated the respective Arm of Service badges: "Hunting Horn" for Infantry, "Crossed Guns" (Cannons) for Artillery, "Crossed Sabres" for Cavalry, a "Castle" for Engineers, and ""Crossed Rifles" for Rifle Regiments (armed with rifles not muskets, and wearing dark "Rifle-Green" uniforms) were to be worn on the front of the cap, which would push the crown of the cap up / make it stand up. However a fashion developed wear the badges were attached to the top which allowed the crown to "flop" down-forward; which created a distinctive shape and look.
@@Joseywales414 officers often wore on the front face, or had a bullion badge, however most were plain as field officers often learned that pretty and distinct hats make for nice targets, alot of early war Confederate headwear was colorful and decorative but after 1862 much less and less so as they too learned strutting turkeys make nice targets too.
What makes Kepi of this style polular and not ones with 'even' crown plate that's based on smkestack shako ? and by this time 'fallcollars' tunic made a return as well?
Kepi’s were a privately purchased item. They wouldn’t be common in the ranks of enlisted men. Forage caps were the issues headgear, the federal government never issued kepis as part of the 1858 uniform, and not until 1872 you’ll the new forage cap resemble a kepi in terms of issued gear to an enlisted man. Reenactors have a bad habit of watching movies and wanting to mimic what they see on screen.
Red: Artillery or (Zouaves), yellow: cavalry, and blue for infantry. But soon for the South it became complicated to supply and manufacture the uniforms, that's why the different colors gray or brown appeared. The caps are often replaced by civil hats. I hope I have answered briefly. And God save the South ! Hourray !!!
The Confederate. Kepis had a grey top, and colored bottom half in three different colors , red for artillery , yellow for cavalry , and blue for infantry .
No documentation exists to support the use of the cap for gathering forage or anything else. Soldiers didn't purposely bend the visors back up again the cap. That happened after the visor got wet and dried. It happened naturally. I give him credit for not calling the forage cap a "bummer" which term was never used for this cap during the Civil War.
I use my Carhartt hat in the summer to gather blueberries from my blueberry bushes so I don't see why it's not possible for them to have done the same thing. Soldiers during Vietnam used the outer shell of their helmets as a wash/shave basin also. Just because there's no written record of it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't do it.
Actually, funny enough-you look long and hard enough, there are actual accounts such as this poem: “O, say have you seen the unique Forage Cap That good Uncle Sam on his Army doth clap? Some turn up it’s visor, and some turn it down, Still it gives each poor wearer the air of a clown. It looks like a scarecrow-good reason why The enemy saw it, took fright and did fly. But the flag of our union in triumph shall wave, When each cap and each contractor shall lie in one grave” -Army & Navy Journal, March 2nd 1872
@@BackAtTheBricks You tell me where I can read about a cap being used carry berries in, or apples, or anything else. I've been searching for a period first person reference for 40 years. It doesn't exist.
I make kepi's, museum quality for reenactors but I only do private orders and mostly only to go with a frock and trousers, the only other person that's still alive and kicking that is very good ( hehe both me and him has fooled museums with ours) is a fella called dirty Billy in GA, look up dirty billy in GA on Google, he's even got a shit ton of real ones and a few officer ones at that he may part with. He's pricey but it's damn good work. I make them cause I wanted too many as a kid and they cost a lot so I started making them on grannies old sewing machine and, well, 20 years later I like to think I got pretty good, but I do it for education and a passion and I don't like charging enough to live on. A quality officers frock, cap and trousers can go for an easy 800-1000 and fine kepi's especially with real gold braid for 150-350 bucks for a museum quality. Which is why I only do private and personal orders. It takes time and slot of patience, everything is hand sewn for quality as is everything with dirty Billy, like I said his stuff has fooled museums too.
Those are the wrong color, and would have probably gotten you shot at the time south of the Mason Dixon line. A grey kepi, now we're talking. That's a great hat. Let's out a rebel yell for the Confederate state of Georgia. "YaHoooo!
No sun protection, no cold protection, no rain protection....perfect for the troops.
Yep
I'm the 20th like!
Stylish tho
Not trying to be rude, but what do you expect from the 19th century? Iron was extremely scarce and helmets didn’t really exist at the time
Full swag though..
This is just one of the best and most informative videos i have seen i a long time. High production quality, clear information and good naming. Thanks a lot!
Back in the early 60's there was a sort of a used stuff store on Germantown Ave in Philadelphia. in the store was a wooden crate full of kepis from both sides, North and South, with a price posted of $5.00 each. So if anyone knows how to go back in time could you please drop me off...OH! Wait!
back in the middle 60's a store in Glenside PA had a window full of flintlock pistols marked $35.00 and in 1951 a gun shop in Pittsburgh had a minty Sharpes carbine in a cavalry scabbard @ $35.00 also
Got one better, an army surplus in NC toward the coast I forget where had just 15 years ago 1863 Yankee canvas haversacks for 25 bucks, I bought up the rest, were 8 left apparently they had hundreds and sold them since the 1970's and then a place (another army surplus) near smokey mountain knife works in Tennessee just 7 years ago they had 15 or 16 various kepi's all the real deal for sure, they were priced from 50 to 1000 bucks, I got 5 for 2500. Guns are a easy find, some still in pawn shops believe it or not, but finding any authentic real deal clothing is a bit harder for sure.
Side note, but, The best was a tailor made artillery LT kepi red with dark blue bank and it's braid, it had VA buttons but no chin strap which I didn't mind, the other pretty one was obviously an officer that was poorer and probably voted to that rank, but it was a plain butternut bummer style with two rows braid that were sewn at separate time indicating a promotion from LT to Capt or Maj since a second row was added on all four sides with an Austrian pattern on top and a single row sewn just above the band which had a pretty cut gold strip taken from what looks like a gold officer sash, now it did have a thick painted chin strap and pre war US sheild buttons with a "C" in the middle.
@@hissyhonker220 Well no mater what you or I could recall Craig Caba beat us both. he lived in Harrisburg PA. His father had a friend who was a buyer for the Smithsonian. Sometimes if they desired a piece the seller would insist it was all or nothing, the institute would take the piece they wanted and couldn't care about the rest. The friend would ask Craigs father if he was interested. He was basically giving the stuff away. Craig amassed a huge collection in the 60's, that later in life, part of it became part of Howard Wert's Museum in Gettysburg. Craig and I were both in high school at the time, our fathers were friends. Sometimes Craig would show me stuff his Dad just bought. The one piece I remember was a Confederate Officers tunic nice double breasted, gold buttons. The Friend had sold it to his Dad for $12. They acquired a huge collection of Civil war items for peanuts.
Part of Craigs collection was stolen from the Wert's Museum in a burglary www.pennlive.com/midstate/2014/02/wert_collection_civil_war_cumb.html
This channel came out with a video I come back to sometimes, educational and well presented and then just never uploaded again.
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Can only watch so much of that. After a while, one needs something like this. ....Besides, I always wondered about those hats.
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Same here! Just rewatched the movie "GETTYSBURG" If anyone know what or why the red emblem/color mean? ... Im referring to the battle of "little round top" can someone TELL me?
rjs1jd It might be a corps badge.
@@rjs1jd It depends on where and how its used. Both sides, red piping is typically a sign of artillery other than specific units (10th TN for example) It could also be the color of a corps badge, which change and fluctuate per unit
I'm a big civil war geek.thx for sharing.😎😎😎😎
The kepi is a 19th century version of baseball cap,imho.
The kepi is my favorite.
......where....do...you...think...they...got...the...idea? The first "Baseball cap" dates back to the 1860
....that is the same time frame you git... even the idea of baseball cards dates to when Soldiers would send their Tin photographs home, one man takes the pics and sends it home to the troops families. That is where collector came from, when a family died of cholera and there was no one to send them to or didn't have a fixed address for them, they would have huge collections they would trade. Oh you got a Grant, Ill trade you my six different pictographs of George B McClellan...the trade was not accepted
imho you should not have stopped learning, and if you're a kid and still learning/going to school...don't stop learning, when you do, you become stupid with your self assurances of being intelligent, then you're no different from the old people with IQ less then 100
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@@ravinraven6913 dude relax
@@ravinraven6913 chill
This is a highly informative video...very well done!
The music is too low I can still hear the corporal. Turn the music up.
Lol
It isn't that bad...
I had a McDowell that I loved that became sun faded and warped by rain. With a bit of my own greying beard it made a particularly veteran look. And I never used it for forage, but did use it to carry off supper when company first sgt issued rations off of a gum blanket (as a re-enactor).
Did you ever just wear it casually around? How much did you pay for yours? How long did it last and just how often did you wear it? Sorry, trying to get a better understanding of how much wear these can take.
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I'm here.
And kill that yankee soldier!
I've seem to notice that the Federals adorned their kepi's with pins mostly on the flat top of the cap, whereas the Confederates mainly added insignia to the front of the cap. I'm sure this wasn't universal, but is seen often.
A great clip, I now own both a forage cap and a Kepi,, I'm in New Zealand 2021, history never forgotten.
Thank you for this video. I have both caps. It's good to know the history of Civil War head gear.
I have found the m1858 forage cap to be more comfortable than the kepi. Great video!
I've been into caps since I was little. Good video. Thanks bro.
Matt McClung same here
I have both Nth and Sth Kepis. On my dads side, they were from Florida. They came to NM after the Civil War.
Helin fought in the same company infantry as my great great great great great great grandfather!
Not to forget, some Cadets I believe used forage cap-like shakos.
That helped a lot, Very informative . Especially not knowing the forage cap was the main issue hat.
thanks for sharing. i would treasure this.
What a great video! Very informative. Thanks for posting it!
Thank you for video. Good history and information.
Very informative, my only complaint is that the back round music as the person is speaking is too loud making it hard to hear.
Wet the cap and wear it in the shape you like until it dries. This will help.
Thanks a lot,! I’ve been trying to find out what the number of strands on the quatrefoil meant forever. I’d heard it designated field grade officers but couldn’t find a source to confirm.
I didnt know Kurt Russel was in the civil war. BTW nice vid
There are many German fraternities where this style of hat has been worn since the 19. century. You might want to search for "Stürmer Studentenverbindung".
Thank You! Nice presentation
I always thought they looked strange as hell. LOL.
Very informative! I didnt know much about this at all!
@Silentamerican , Go search in "Civil war sutler" then find one, click their page, find hats, then find kepi
I like the Kepi, some talented gentleman are selling custom made kepis with modern camos
Blockade Runner handmakes these kepis, and quite good quality and excellent fit for the price.
@@wizardofahhhs759Dirty Billy and Goober Grabber make some of the best, a lot better than Blockade Runner.
@@sp00k48 Maybe, but $50 bucks for a handmade item such as a kepi is quite a good buy.
@@wizardofahhhs759 Goober Grabber is only about $50 bucks more for a handmade museum-quality reproduction and he can do all sorts of custom headwear as well. Dirty Billies costs more but his work is just as good if not better and he does customs as well. I know a fellow who makes handmade forage caps for about $60, good quality good-quality construction and materials, not quite museum quality but still look really good, much better than Blockade Runner.
I thought it was called the forage cap because it it what you would wear while foraging
Stephen Andersen I think forage comes from the french Fourager. Which in military terms is the quarter master. Thus meaning Government Issue.
I've never heard of headgear being named after it's use for foraging food.
Excellent video, would be better if you brought the music down in the final mix. Narrator in the forefront, backing music in the background.
We call "Caps"....😂....Hats in Dixie...a Cap is on a Beer bottle...LMAO.😁
I owned this dvd as a kid
Keep meaning to order a quality forager cap, but dunno when I'd actually wear it.
If want to wear it around but I’d feel kinda nerdy.
@ I actually ordered one in the Mcdowell style and modified it to fit my needs. I have recently gained more confidence and have been wearing it everywhere. People actually compliment me on it quite often.
@@yeenosaur2620 ohh that sounds cool, I'm going to wear a union Kepi haha.
Do you wear a union or confederate mcDowell?
@ I wear a union Mcdowell, a confederate hat would get me killed in todays political atmosphere.
I need to order one of these
Why on earth was such an impractical head piece adopted? I like the Iron Brigade hats.
That's good to see it for all, and at NR School.
Great subject and clip. Often too I think the original Government / Army issue "Forage Cap" is often wrongly called a 'Kepi", as they look similar; your clip shows us the difference. I believe the original US Army dress regulations stated the respective Arm of Service badges: "Hunting Horn" for Infantry, "Crossed Guns" (Cannons) for Artillery, "Crossed Sabres" for Cavalry, a "Castle" for Engineers, and ""Crossed Rifles" for Rifle Regiments (armed with rifles not muskets, and wearing dark "Rifle-Green" uniforms) were to be worn on the front of the cap, which would push the crown of the cap up / make it stand up. However a fashion developed wear the badges were attached to the top which allowed the crown to "flop" down-forward; which created a distinctive shape and look.
We’re do you get your resource for this claim?? Please show or tell us.
About the badges being worn in the front verses the top.
@@Joseywales414 officers often wore on the front face, or had a bullion badge, however most were plain as field officers often learned that pretty and distinct hats make for nice targets, alot of early war Confederate headwear was colorful and decorative but after 1862 much less and less so as they too learned strutting turkeys make nice targets too.
0:15 ...Wow. That photo. ...Kind of puts it all in perspective...for myself, anyways.
Interesting video thank you Mike, We Know Only Our Country.
What makes Kepi of this style polular and not ones with 'even' crown plate that's based on smkestack shako ?
and by this time 'fallcollars' tunic made a return as well?
this guy needs more subs
Great video, I learned a lot! Thank you.
Music is very distracting. Great info.
Many thanks.
I £{}♡€ the music score.
unbelievable. cool thanx
Very impractical... I never understood the civil war head gear
Well, not impractical at all.
@@shulzyyy9024It’s impractical if it doesn’t protect from sun and rain.
Don't buy a Kepi, buy a type 2 forage cap or an 1858 hardee.
That's so Farby...
Why?
Do kepis come with flowers or feathers.for today's female reenactors?
Kepi’s were a privately purchased item. They wouldn’t be common in the ranks of enlisted men. Forage caps were the issues headgear, the federal government never issued kepis as part of the 1858 uniform, and not until 1872 you’ll the new forage cap resemble a kepi in terms of issued gear to an enlisted man. Reenactors have a bad habit of watching movies and wanting to mimic what they see on screen.
Unless your reenacting a confederate. The South issued kepis
Thank you ! Very interesting and informative :)
Custer was a brevet general during the civil war
What were the red (artillery?) and yellow kepis for? Thank you.
Red: Artillery or (Zouaves), yellow: cavalry, and blue for infantry. But soon for the South it became complicated to supply and manufacture the uniforms, that's why the different colors gray or brown appeared. The caps are often replaced by civil hats. I hope I have answered briefly. And God save the South ! Hourray !!!
Got it thank you so much.
Targets for the other side...stood out like a sore thumb!!
The Confederate. Kepis had a grey top, and colored bottom half in three different colors , red for artillery , yellow for cavalry , and blue for infantry .
@@johnbockelie3899 Thank you for the clear answer.
No documentation exists to support the use of the cap for gathering forage or anything else. Soldiers didn't purposely bend the visors back up again the cap. That happened after the visor got wet and dried. It happened naturally. I give him credit for not calling the forage cap a "bummer" which term was never used for this
cap during the Civil War.
umm lay off the crack
reenactor
I use my Carhartt hat in the summer to gather blueberries from my blueberry bushes so I don't see why it's not possible for them to have done the same thing. Soldiers during Vietnam used the outer shell of their helmets as a wash/shave basin also. Just because there's no written record of it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't do it.
I like to watch people fuss over things I don't understood
Actually, funny enough-you look long and hard enough, there are actual accounts such as this poem:
“O, say have you seen the unique Forage Cap
That good Uncle Sam on his Army doth clap?
Some turn up it’s visor, and some turn it down,
Still it gives each poor wearer the air of a clown.
It looks like a scarecrow-good reason why
The enemy saw it, took fright and did fly.
But the flag of our union in triumph shall wave,
When each cap and each contractor shall lie in one grave”
-Army & Navy Journal, March 2nd 1872
@@BackAtTheBricks You tell me where I can read about a cap being used carry berries in, or apples, or anything else. I've been searching for a period first person reference for 40 years. It doesn't exist.
In my re-enactments I’m PVT. Morgan Jenkins is independent battery G if fort Delaware
EXCELLENT REPORT
The McDowell cap: a design by dr. Seuss! 😃
This Austrian style cap is probably the most professional looking military cap worn in the American Civil War
So, why did they design the hats to be tall like that, if it only sagged down?
Well, I’ll throw my hat into the ring. How’s that for a topper.
Badda boom !!!!!😀
First class ,excellent video, thanks
I really needed this !!!!
can you possibly do a video on how to train the foarge cap?
How about learning to spell?
Congratulations
“Forage” had the same meaning then as “Utility” or “Fatigues “ do to day. It had nothing to do with filling the cap with anything.
I think he meant that's what a lot were used for, which, they were
Fascinating, thanks
Nice
This dude need to put up new videos
any information on a good source for caps.
I make kepi's, museum quality for reenactors but I only do private orders and mostly only to go with a frock and trousers, the only other person that's still alive and kicking that is very good ( hehe both me and him has fooled museums with ours) is a fella called dirty Billy in GA, look up dirty billy in GA on Google, he's even got a shit ton of real ones and a few officer ones at that he may part with. He's pricey but it's damn good work. I make them cause I wanted too many as a kid and they cost a lot so I started making them on grannies old sewing machine and, well, 20 years later I like to think I got pretty good, but I do it for education and a passion and I don't like charging enough to live on. A quality officers frock, cap and trousers can go for an easy 800-1000 and fine kepi's especially with real gold braid for 150-350 bucks for a museum quality. Which is why I only do private and personal orders. It takes time and slot of patience, everything is hand sewn for quality as is everything with dirty Billy, like I said his stuff has fooled museums too.
0:10 sad song but good song
great information
No Hardee hats?
Didn't want to frighten any southerners who might be watching.
What did the navy wear?
Nice work Mike
Good info, Mike.
Potentially a very excellent video spoiled by intrusive background music, shame.
+teetonball1 Nah, the background music fits the video and I love the choice of tunes, plus the instruments used. I love it
I don't remember the name of the song that starts at 0:50 but it was perfect for the video
Song - Year of Jubilio - aversion to loud background music must be an English thing, brought up on BBC history documentaries.
teetonball1 Could be, could be. You English yourself?
Yes, reenact 69NY / 1AK
I thought the video was about the Union's lies.
Would have like to seen an example or definition of the "bummer" style cap.
That's a name for the forage cap
Civil War use of German style spiked helmets
Where online, can I buy a Kepi cap online at?
marcus barber , its been six years did you ever find a cap ?
Nice vid,thank you...
What about the Confederates who wore a similar cap?
Nice video but the music is too loud.
KEPI
The Kepi was a much nicer looking cap, IMO...
Leave our monuments alone. This is history at it's best. I really get fucking mad when these images are defiled.
I'm a Nawtherner. A damn Yankee.
God Bless the brave men, all Americans, from all sides.
Hand Salute. ✋
where can i get a quality forage cap
Dirty Billy makes a good one. Located in Gettysburg.
Yup.....DON'T buy cheap mass produced CHINESE hats...
Blockade Runner, their hats are 100% American and hand made. Not expensive either.
2:58 Hoel Delin 1842-1907
Sorry, had to leave, i didn't realize this was a music video, I thought it was a talk on Civil War caps.
what's the music name?
I'd rather be wearing a slouch hat than any cap.
Gloriosa história dos Estados Unidos
I'm a good ol rebel
It seems too small for most of them.
Army style, one size fits all.
Can you wear these in public
Those are the wrong color, and would have probably gotten you shot at the time south of the Mason Dixon line. A grey kepi, now we're talking. That's a great hat. Let's out a rebel yell for the Confederate state of Georgia. "YaHoooo!
Shut it Johnny!
in germany its a stürmer ;)
I have a leather Kepi :)
I have a grey suede kepi I bought from a guy who ran a leather biker booth at the flea market back in the late '80s.