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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 14 (search)
m April 19 to Nov. 29, 1864. The Tenth Corps badge was the trace of a four-bastioned fort. It was adopted by General Orders No. 18 issued by Major-General D. B. Birney, July 25, 1864. The Eleventh and Twelfth Corps have already been referred to, in General Hooker's circular. On the 18th of April, 1864, these two corps were consolidated to form the Twentieth Corps, and by General Eleventh and Twelfth Corps badges combined. Orders No. 62 issued by Major- General George H. Thomas, April 26, a star, as heretofore worn by the Twelfth Corps, was prescribed as the badge. The annexed cut shows the manner in which many of the corps combined the two badges in order not to lose their original identity. The Thirteenth Corps had no badge. The badge of the Fourteenth Army Corps was an acorn. Tradition has it that some time before the adoption of this badge the members of this corps called themselves Acorn Boys, because at one time in their history, probably when they were h