Uniforms of the United States Army 1774-1889


just picked this up yesterday.

The backstory is that its a reprint of a book published in 1889 by an artist named H A Ogden who created the book for the War Department.

This is a reprint of the first edition. There were later editions published that showed the Army up through 1907.

The last reprint of the 1907 edition was last published in 1960

for $9.95 I thought it was pretty neat.

here's some of the plates from the book

kind of neat to see how the uniforms evolved over the years











I think its neat that in the 1880s the US Army actually wore Prussian style dress helmets. The infantry variant even had a spike