Indian War Field Artillery Coats

[Steve Rogers]

Rather than hijack an earlier thread on the 1885 pattern field artillery (aka mounted or light artillery) coats, I thought I would post two for general interest that passed through my hands recently. One is a private's coat with a Schuylkill Arsenal marking and the other is a trumpeter's coat with no marking visible. It was not mentioned specifically in the earlier thread, but what makes them scarce is that from 1866 to the beginning of the Spanish American War there were only five regular regiments of artillery and only two batteries from each were designated as light or field artillery, the remainder being heavy artillery assigned to fortifications.

Anyway, here is the front of the private's coat.

[Steve Rogers]

Here's the reverse of the private's coat showing the "W" shaped placket that marks it as a mounted coat.

 

[Steve Rogers]

And, here's the front of the trumpeter's coat.

 

[Steve Rogers]

Lastly, the reverse of the trumpeter's coat. It's especially scarce, of course, because only two trumpeters were allocated per battery.

 

[Brian Keith]

Very nice coats, Thanks for posting them.

BKW

[dag]

Awesome coats. Thanks for posting. Could you post closeup pictures of the buttons?

[Redlegwolf]

Beautiful coats==I have been looking for a FA mounted coat for a long time.