Us Civil War Slouch Hat

Typical leather chin straps are 5 8 or 1 2 wide depending upon cap ordered.
Us civil war slouch hat. At first the slouch hat was well defined as a fairly soft hat with a low crown and a medium brim. The slouch hat is correct for both us and cs officers and enlisted men. Civilian and cs hats. Hat slouch hat rough rider style 79 95.
Miller civil war slouch hats. This slouch hat is made of top quality wool felt with a 3 1 2 inch wide brim. Civil war and indian war period us army and confederate army caps and insignia the quartermaster shop s civil war forage caps and kepis are made using our top quality wools and supple leather pieces. Made at the dirty billy factory by dirty billy himself.
However over time the term slouch hat came to be a generic term describing a wide variety of hats. The brim is almost 4 inches wide the crown is 4 inches tall with a slightly rounded top. Stay away from the kepi or the civilian look as these are not issue or regulation. Reenacting the american civil war began even before the real fighting had ended.
And will therefore provide you the customer with years of wearing pleasure. Buffalo soldier hats the nickname probably started in 1873 on the western frontier with the cheyenne. The slouch hat is a wide brimmed hat. Made from top quality wool felt made in american.
The outer edge is trimmed with sewn black ribbon and the hat band is a flat woven cord 1 4 wide. By the time of the civil war the term slouch hat came to be associated with hats of various types of crowns and crown heights brim widths and degrees of softness. Miller hats sells only those hats that meet our superior standards. Officers too had guidelines but much more latitude in their choices.
The head band is soft leather that wears extremely comfortably. Federal generic us20 lj i forage cap or a plain unadorned hardee hat us8. These are hand formed and blocked in a period style. The crown and brim can be shaped to the desire of the soldier.
Slouch hat during the american civil war the slouch hat has been known in the us military at least since the american civil war being fairly common among officers. The exterior is authentic the interior is machine finished. The standard headgear for us soldiers in the vietnam war in the 1960s was a fatigue baseball or field cap that offered little protection from the sun. It has a sweatband.
All our caps are patterned after originals at various museums.