Object Details
- Description
- This coat bears the insignia of a hospital steward—a yellow silk embroidered caduceus on each sleeve. The responsibilities of hospital stewards included maintaining order and discipline, keeping records, dressing minor wounds, assisting surgeons, and serving as pharmacists. No one except the hospital steward was allowed into the dispensary where opium, morphine, and other drugs were stored.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. War Department
- associated date
- 1857
- ID Number
- AF.24989.01
- accession number
- 64127
- catalog number
- 24989.01
- Object Name
- coat
- Other Terms
- coat; Man; Army; Artillery; Enlisted Man; Dress
- Physical Description
- wool (overall material)
- dark blue (overall color)
- crimson (trim color)
- green (half-chevron color)
- brass (buttons material)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 in x 16 in; 91.44 cm x 40.64 cm
- overall (padded): 36 in x 16 in x 2 in; 91.44 cm x 40.64 cm x 5.08 cm
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Civil War
- Military
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_397286
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-da25-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
