![]() As far as the US army goes, it was a sky-blue color. And then yellow was cavalry, and the blue or black was for the infantry. If it’s red tape, it was artillery, supposedly, this is what the - in actuality that didn’t actually happen - but red was supposed to be artillery. They serve out in New Mexico and Arizona. The orange is for the dragoons, if you see green tape, it’s for the mounted rifles. The orange tape is what designated the dragoons, and they balled up all the tape and switched out the tape on their shell jackets until it ran out in about the ‘63 time period. ![]() The Third - the Mounted Rifles became the Third Cavalry, and then the current First and Second became the Fourth and Fifth. In 1860-61 time period, they’re rolled over, the First and Second US dragoons were made into the First and Second US cavalry. I’m a dragoon, which is early US cavalry.
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