Object Details
- Gansevoort, Peter
- Description
- Physical Description
- Superfine blue wool, lined with linen and faced with red trim. It has silver civilian patterned buttons backed with bone and a silver lace on the buttonholes.
- Specific History
- Continental army uniform coat worn by Colonel Peter Gansevoort Jr. of the 3rd Regiment of the New York Continental Line. He wore this coat during his command of Fort Stanwix, New York, in 1777.
- General History
- During the first few years of the war substantial stocks of uniforms were made in such centers as Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston. These uniforms were made with locally woven cloth or from cloth imported from France.
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Abraham Lansing
- ca 1776
- associated date
- 1777
- ID Number
- AF.12806
- catalog number
- 12806
- accession number
- 53757
- Object Name
- coat
- Other Terms
- coat; Man; Officer
- Physical Description
- wool (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 40 in x 24 in; 101.6 cm x 60.96 cm
- used
- United States: New York
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- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
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- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- American Revolution
- Revolution and the New Nation
- Record ID
- nmah_439538
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-5fb7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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