31384 Federal Iron Brigade Reaching for Cap Wearing Gaiters John Jenkins Designs WWII a Vietnamese mother carries her

a Vietnamese mother carries her child to safety as the bullets and bombs fly all around them

He also wears a Chasseur style officer’s kepi decorated with an Austrian knot

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David Crockett was an American frontiersman

31384 Federal Iron Brigade Reaching for Cap Wearing Gaiters John Jenkins Designs WWII a Vietnamese mother carries herThe Iron Brigade was often referred by the Rebs as Those Dammed Black Hats! Even though the brigade was made up of volunteers from Wisconsin and Indiana, early in the war they appeared dressed in the Regular U. S. Army uniforms of nine button frock coats, white canvas gaiters, and black felt Hardee hats turned up with a brass eagle on one side. As the war continued the campaigning and reequipping took their toll on the distinctive uniform, and by the