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...
