Original U.S. Civil War Era Kentucky State Officer Private Purchase Chasseur Style Pattern Kepi with Scarce “United We Stand Divided We Fall” Buttons Snider Rifle Parts This is the only version

This is the only version of a Spanish American war hate belts we have eve encountered

but has the possibility of having been repainted at least once

Eisen- und Metallwarenfabrik

along with both barrel bands and the nose cap

and the swass on both sides still show a good amount of the gold highlighting

Original U.S. Civil War Era Kentucky State Officer Private Purchase Chasseur Style Pattern Kepi with Scarce “United We Stand Divided We Fall” Buttons Snider Rifle Parts This is the only versionOriginal Item. Only One Available. Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance. Though the Confederacy controlled more than half of Kentucky early in the war, after early 1862