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| Keywords: price of freedom priceoffreedom military history militaryhistory uniforms smithsonian probably public domain probablypublicdomain indoor SI Neg. 2004-23472. Date: na....Double breasted gray wool shell jacket with buff facings. Adorned with brass muffin buttons. Gray felt slouch hat trimmed in grograin ribbon. The style would become known as a Mosby style hat.This slouch hat was worn by John Mosby when he was wounded by federal cavalry in December 1864. According to Virgil Carrington Jones, author of Grey Ghosts and Rebel Raiders, this hat was left behind in a house in Rector's Cross Roads, Virginia. Forty years later, Sarah Halstead, the daughter of a 13th New York Cavalry officer returned the hat to Mosby. A few days after it arrived, Mosby went to the White House and presented the hat to the President...Credit: Hugh Talman (Smithsonian Institution) SI Neg. 2004-23472. Date: na....Double breasted gray wool shell jacket with buff facings. Adorned with brass muffin buttons. Gray felt slouch hat trimmed in grograin ribbon. The style would become known as a Mosby style hat.This slouch hat was worn by John Mosby when he was wounded by federal cavalry in December 1864. According to Virgil Carrington Jones, author of Grey Ghosts and Rebel Raiders, this hat was left behind in a house in Rector's Cross Roads, Virginia. Forty years later, Sarah Halstead, the daughter of a 13th New York Cavalry officer returned the hat to Mosby. A few days after it arrived, Mosby went to the White House and presented the hat to the President...Credit: Hugh Talman (Smithsonian Institution) | ||||
