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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 14 (search)
cond; blue for Third. Fifth Corps--a Maltese cross: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third. Sixth Corps--a cross: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third. (Light Division, green.) Eleventh Corps--a crescent: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third. Twelfth Corps--a star: red for First Division; white for Second; blue for Third. The sizes and colors will be according to pattern. By command of Major-General Hooker, S. Williams, A. A.G. Accompanying this order were paper patterns pasted on a fly-leaf, illustrating the size and color required. It will be seen that the badges figured in the color-plates are much reduced in size. Diligent inquiry and research in the departments at Washington fail to discover any of the patterns referred to, or their dimensions; but there are veterans living who have preserved the first badge issued to them in pursuance of this circular, from which it is inferred that the patt