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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: April 13, 2014
Caption: Kepi belonging to Colonel Elmer Ellsworth
Additional Description: “Col. Elmer Ellsworth was celebrated in the early days of the Civil War as a Union hero whose death in Alexandria, Virginia claimed him as the North's First Martyr. Ellsworth popularized the Zouave movement in America by organizing the Chicago Zouave Cadets in 1859. At the beginning of the Civil War, he raised the 11th New York “Fire” Zouaves, a regiment which participated in the Federal occupation of Alexandria on May 24, 1861. Zouave officers usually wore red kepis, a color typical of Zouave uniforms. Ellsworth's kepi reflects how officer' caps were often decorated with rows of gold braid, which indicated rank, and a Hungarian know design on the crown. The three vertical gold stripes on the sides of the cap's crown signified a field officer.” — Fort Ward Museum
Submitted: February 21, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p300794
File Size: 2.322 Megabytes

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