US ARMY MOUNTED RIFLES 1856 UNIFORMS AND SUPPLIES For Sale

The US Mounted Rifles was a unique frontier unit, wearing distinctive green piping and bugle insignia on their jackets and armed with the M 1841 percussion rifled muskets and Colt Walker revolvers. The "Brave Rifles" so-called for their heroism in Mexico, served in Texas and New Mexico as notable Indian fighters. (They were later renamed the 3rd US Cavalry). An Original US Army Requisition from Major GH Crosman, Phildelphia, Feb 1, 1856 llisting items to be packed and transported to LT Hyatt C Ransom, Mtd Riflemen, as Recruiting Officer at Mobile, Alabama, including caps, insignia, mounted rifle jackets & great coats, recruiting flags, knapsacks, canteens, etc. The requisition is signed by Major GH Crosman as US Army Quartermaster, at Philadelphia, January, 1856. 1p 8 x 11" ptd/ink. Edge wear, age stains, Overall VG. The Mtd Rifles were posted to Fort Union at this time, fighting Indians in New Mexico and Texas.The signer served 40 years incl prewar Frontier service in Texas, and the the Civil War. Crosman is most famously remembered for helping establish the US Army Camel Corp.

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