What was the damage to the combine ? 😂😂😂

Yes, a couple of months ago

Thanks so much! 

Thanks so much!

I think 1850s would be appropriate. Here's a listing showing a pair of Virginian Militia's epaulettes that are more in the style of your epaulettes.

. This afternoon . . . . . . .    after leaving a friends house this evening I got to the end of their single track road and encountered a huge combine harvester occupying the width of the blacktop road coming towards me. Braking wasn't an option so it was a quick swerve into the ditch and an immediate swerve catapulting me out  the ditch at which my rear  grab-handle made contact with the huge wide rear tyre, a little bit of paint removed and rubber mark added but fortunately no damage done,  all down to swift reaction due to years of Jeeping experience., I love Jeeping .             Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 23  2O25.    ….  

Many years ago I visited the AF Museum and saw pieces of the "Lady Be Good" there. The USAF had removed parts to study the effects of long- term exposure to the arid desert climate. The "Lady Be Good" story was dramatized on "The Twilight Zone" years ago.    

Yeah, I keep finding the type with the metal edges but none with the type like I have. Not sure if that changes who may have worn it, era etc. 

Let me preface this by saying I have little to knowledge of these types of uniforms and this is just from quick internet searches.   I found this image online proclaiming to show a "Short-tailed jacket of the Massachusetts Militia, c.1850s." This jacket seems to show the same dark colored epaulettes with bullion letters as in the images above (although, I admit, that there are some differences).

Looking at the soldier in the background on the left, what are the Army beard regulations now?