Corps Badges

   On June 28,1862 General Phillip Kearny sent down orders to all his officers to cut pieces of red flannel into two inch squares and to wear them on top of their caps. This came about after Kearny, so the story goes, mistakenly chastised officers of another division. The enlisted men of Kearny's command soon started making their own red badges.
   The actual use of Corps Badges were not used until the spring of 1863, when Major General Joseph Hooker gave the responsibility of creating a symbol to define each corps to Major General Daniel Butterfield Hooker's chief of staff.
   Although there were twenty five Army Corps and a Cavalry Corps along with several other Awards, Badges and Medals of the period, the corps badges below are from my collection.

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For further reading on Corps Badge see the following:

1) Stanley S. Phillips, Civil war Corps Badges and Other
     related Awards, Badges, Medals of the Period.
  2) Becky Sylvia, North South Trader's Civil War: Vol. I
     No. 2 Pg.23.
3) Nancy Dearing Rossbacher, North South Trader's Civil War:
     Vol. XVII No.5 Pg.24.
  4) General C. McKeever, Civil War battle Flags of the
     Union Army and Order of Battle
5) Howard G. Lanham, M.D. Web Site on Straps: The Evolution of
     United States Army Shoulder Straps

*Military Insignias*	*Corps Insignias*	Corps Organizations FOX'S REGIMENTAL LOSSES
Designs of Civil War Corps Badges