to us, the three corner cocked hat is emblemic of the Revolution, and maybe the French and Indian, 7-years war, and the early Napoleonic days...but the reality is that the style was widely adopted by individual soldiers and smaller local militias of the Civil War. The South had many examples, perhaps because the war was widely sold to the public as a second revolution to protect "the Constitutional right to property" (it's slavery, we can say slaves here.)
Even though no unit during the Civil War ever sported this uniform, I am inclined to produce a regiment modeled after this lithograph, it is "historical" after a fashion...
E.D. Baker, personal friend of Abe Lincoln, valiant soldier, expressive statesman, a man of high moral character and honorable integrity, still remains in the most Roman Republican of Traditions, the only Sitting US Senator to die in battle.
I reproduce here his most famous oration, made in congress after the debacle of Bull Run, in response to Breckenridge's cavails and urgings to let the Union be sundered...
