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The Voi~e of Civil War Reenacting Volume XXVU - Number 3 Winter 2000 Single Copies - 53.00 The Voice of Civil War Reenacting Winter 2000 PublWlcr. Bill Hol.<chuh; Edllnr; ~"l i llillll Jackson: AssiSlllnllO III Publisher: Oonioo '!lUl k<r: Copy Edllor: Rol1crta Jac"'",,: Fcature~: Field Corrapo,,~.n ,": J. P. Roger,. E1merWood.lId; Cunlrtblll· Inc Wrlltl'$: Illlto ll,,"len. Jonah Begone. Q,'m Dat Bello. David K. ox. Will1 l1!l1 J, Hamil lon. Ill, 0011 Huhlmd. Susan L. HmthC!. Phi li p Kau:hcr. caJ Kinzer, Ju hll j, lJunb. K.:m:n R!IC MehJrcy. Topping OffY(lUl' Impression.... .... ... ........ .. .......... ...... .... .. ....... 38 Mati Mcrta.lloyd Mllcs.Joim D. P'ga"o. Tam Sh.w:GeofI"W.lden. ArtlsWCarloonls\s; Palrick llllJ'1)l. Manny Il oudre<lu x: OIlfY Frederick R dolphus EdmL".n. -Diny" Mtltc Sburis,. lJougllLs Woodall. Photogroplul,.,., John CoITer. C.C. Dav,s. Wendell Decker. 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Keitz TOPPING OFF YOUR IMPRESSION CONFEDERATE HATS CAME IN A WIDE VARIETY OF COLORS AND STYLES, AND CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THEY WERE GENERALLY lN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE By Fred rick H. Adolphus Considerable progress has been down slightly in the front and rear. One of the most widespread flat made by reenactors in creating au Sometimes, when a brim began to styles of crOWD was the cylindrical thentic Confederate impressions, acquire an unwanted slouch due to straight pillbox. PiUbox hats were with improvements in uniforms, wear, the owner would roll it up on medium in height. Similar in shape equipment, accouterments and hats. the sides toward the front, somewhat to the pillbox was the pork pie. This, But there is always more that can like a modern cowboy hat. too was a flat cylinder of medium be done to improve our impressions, There were a variety styles of height, but the top was slightly COD so here is some information gleaned crowns as well. There were flat, cave, resembling an English pork from period drawings and photo· round and telescoped variants. Some pie. Some ofthe flat crown tapered graphs on styles of hats worn by were straight, some flared out to· toward the top, like a Hardee hat. Confederate soldiers and how com· ward the top and some tapered in Others belled out towards the top, mon the various styles were. toward the top. and are known as bell crowns. There Most hats at this period were were also older styles such as the made of treated woolen cloth, al high, straight stovepipe; and newer, though some were made of felt, ei· but less widespread, styles with low ther expensive fur or cheap wool felt. flat tops. Together with straw hats made of Round crown hats usually had woven traw or some other either an evenly·rounded dome or a spJaitable grass, these accounted flat top with abruptly rounded sides. for the vast majority of hats resembling a pillbox with rounded worn in the South. edges. This latter crown is These hats were often called a sugarloaf further distin style . The ev nly guished by the size rounded crowns dif· and shape ofthe brim fered little from one an· and the crown. Brims other except for height. are either wide, medium Many, however, were mis or narrow. A medium brim shapen or had the tops pushed in to from the period was about three reduce the height. Another variant inches wide. Crowns axe cia sllied of the round crown was the beehive as either low, medium or high. The or beegum crown. This style had Th· hal ,; huwn <lhove wa,; worn by en!. medium crown was about five inches somewhat the form of a beehive as John C . Wll lkl'r, Provost \1n r!S hnl a T. tall. it came to a point at the top. The bee Oran;!" and :,,/, bl)(;Tl:; Bluff, 'rex;!s, 1 ~6 4- Most brims- at least when new hive appears to be a misshapen H3Ui Wn lkcr's drll b colured hilt sports flared up very slightly at the edges, sugarloafhat. On aU styles of crown, a CSA badgp. witli w rea th muunteJ U lt but some were flat and many were doth . If(~ l p. iel' coped the cn1wn :t ud many wearers pinched the front to· given 01' acquired distinctive shapes added a l-niu ll uff i('e r ' ~ halld ft lld (a s ~e l gether, giving a "V" shape viewed with use. Some were pinned up on cu rd. T h t ~ bri m ~ I O llc h t~'i do n in H from the top. the side or front. Some would sag all IIHtr1tl ' r Illlt ,-,ften s( ·,' n in Cf) ufedenuc Black was perhaps the most com the way around, and others slouched hulS. (Priv[ll o< COjkClillll ) mon color used for hats, but they were available in shades ranging from drab white to black, with brown also much in evidence. The pillbox hat was probably the most widely-used style in the South during the War, (see figure 1). The wide-brimmed variant was the fa vorite, and black was the most com mon color. Straw hats were almost invariably pillbox-shaped, (see figure 2). Pillboxes also came with medium and narrow brims, although the nar row-brim style was not all that com mon during the war and the medium brim was also less common than the wide brim, (see figure 3). Figure 1. T hese d rawings all show the wide-brim pillbox hat in fa irly good condition. Two of the ha15 shown are from the ~a ern Theater, two are frum the \Vest fUl d two flre frum the Trans-Mis issippi. All fi re black, except for une frnrn the Trans-Mi ·sissipp i. These hals also show hat bands, a nd the brims on all but one fla ir up slightly. 'Jl w pxception has Ii brim thM is nat a t • he edges and 51o pes down sligh tly in the frunt a nd reFi T. Figure 2. Frflnk,B. hi lto l! 's Ililt, H) VirgiIl ia Army r riso ll cr a t Cettysburg (Jenscn, pg. GB, /1 9). lIofilfs TI~lCas 'Brjgl:ltJe. Thi" StrHW hat is b) FOUlld beside a fFill en Ta rh l~e J a t • pou,ylvania (Jpnsen, pg. 7-l. lypic..'! 1(I f must, havlng n wide brim fi nd C Bnd d) Western CUll federare prisoners in Chi(;.ago, 1864 (Military Images. pg. 16, 1 ). a pillbox shEl ped cruwn. The style was e) Pvc Ed win L. Patw n, Co. F, 5th T exas \1ounted Vol., 1861 (Military Images, pg. 10). cummon to a ll areas of the South, but DCuiJentificd soldier from Anderson County, Texfls, 1861 (Cal 'ndnr, cover 1992).