This is a replica I made of Stonewall Jackson's so called 'rusty' cap, a present to him from his wife upon the occasion of his receiving a new frockcoat from JEB Stuart. When it was originally made during the war, it was a cadet gray, but the sun faded it to this light tan color in only about a year's time, as the dyes were not nearly so color fast then as we have today.
I once had a customer from Florida whose main thing was to go around the country portraying Stonewall. He had me make him two of this forage cap. One in its unfaded cadet gray and then in the faded butternut color. A real before and after.
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