The top of the cap had a cardboard stiffener. The front of the cap had a leather chin strap held on by two small eagle buttons and joined by two leather slides and a brass buckle. Lastly a leather sweatband ran around the inside base.
The inside of the cap has a outer lining of black Silesia cloth and a inner buckram reinforcing layer around the base. Welt the same for all branches and the same color as the rest of the cap. In 1861 this was discontinued in favor of a dark blue The original 1858 model had a welt around theĬrown in the branch color. Some would apply the term narrowly to privately purchased caps with particularly exaggerated features. Forage caps with an exaggerated posterior height and sloping visors are commonly called McDowell style forage caps. Quartermaster correspondence indicates that the earliest pattern of the model 1858 was stipulated to have a sloping visor. The forage cap was introduced just in time to become the signature headgear of the
Troops in the field showed that the shako did not hold up under field conditions. The model 1851 cap, a shako used for both dress and fatique. The forage cap was adopted during a time when the standard army headgear was Union Army Uniforms and Insignia of the Civil War Headgear Forage Cap (Kepi)įorage caps were the most popular headgear wornīy the Union army, particularly in the eastern theater of operations.
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