Brass Spikes and Horsetail Plumes: A History of U.S. Army Dress Helmets 1872-1904 (Gordon Chappell - WH) cannon The Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame

neighbors along the quiet Stateline Road in Lake County

and Selma and destroy anything useful to the enemy’s war effort

while Major Roy Stone led the additional six companies on the Virginia Peninsula with the Army of the Potomac—both contingents rendering distinguished service

Brass Spikes and Horsetail Plumes: A History of U.S. Army Dress Helmets 1872-1904 (Gordon Chappell - WH) cannon The Army of the Potomacby Gordon Chappell What were those odd looking black helmets with spikes or plumes and brass decorations that appeared in historic photographs of American soldiers on parade or in portrait studios during the western Indian wars of America's Victorian Age? Gordon Chappell, after more than thirty years of extensive research, identifies an array of helmets and answers questions about when, where and how such helmets came to be manufactured and worn.