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Found this private purchase forage cap ID'ed to a private soldier in Company B, 20th Iowa Infantry already sold on a dealer's website. I figured I would share this as many of us tend to think of western soldiers nearly exclusively wearing dress, slouch or civilian type hats and this is not only a forage cap but a private purchase one to an Iowa boy by the name of Allen Mohler that was in the Trans-Mississippi theater. Not only is this cap identified but the owner had a rather narrow window of service as shown in his record from the Adjutant General Office, Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion
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Service record of Private Allen Mohler;
Mohler, Allen. Age 18. Residence Center Point, nativity Ohio. Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered
Aug. 23, 1862. Discharged for disability March 20, 1863, Springfield, Mo.
Found this private purchase forage cap ID'ed to a private soldier in Company B, 20th Iowa Infantry already sold on a dealer's website. I figured I would share this as many of us tend to think of western soldiers nearly exclusively wearing dress, slouch or civilian type hats and this is not only a forage cap but a private purchase one to an Iowa boy by the name of Allen Mohler that was in the Trans-Mississippi theater. Not only is this cap identified but the owner had a rather narrow window of service as shown in his record from the Adjutant General Office, Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion
Link for the cap;
Service record of Private Allen Mohler;
Mohler, Allen. Age 18. Residence Center Point, nativity Ohio. Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered
Aug. 23, 1862. Discharged for disability March 20, 1863, Springfield, Mo.