United States. A Civil War Union Army 1St Sharpshooters Enlisted Man's Dress Epaulette Set Hold with two-piece leather strap)

with two-piece leather strap)

Private William Brown

very fine medal bar

Army Signal Corps insignia at the lower left

December 18

United States. A Civil War Union Army 1St Sharpshooters Enlisted Man's Dress Epaulette Set Hold with two-piece leather strap)(Berdan Sharpshooters) Each epaulette incorporating stiff frames, uppers in green wool with a checkered pattern, the crescent ridge of the protruding wide oval caps trimmed in two rows of green angled embroidery, the outer row butting the fringe wider than the row butting the wool upper, multiple strands of embroidered green fringe dangling from the oval cap, with the fringe on one epaulette wider than that on the other, both with a brass button at