This is a state version of the 5-button fatigue blouse adopted by the U.S. army in the 1870s with trim indicating a branch of service and in the 1880s untrimmed. This follows the basic form of the regular army, but has a stand-up collar secured with hooks and eyes and shoulder tabs sewn at the shoulder and fastened with buttons near the neck. The body lining is black silk, as often seen on private purchase and state issue garments. The sleeve linings are plain white cloth. The buttons are US general service buttons of the 1880s. The coat has sergeant's chevrons on each sleeve. These are made of gold braid sewn on a black background patch. This pattern, using gold braid on a background branch of service color also dates to the 1880s. Given that state regulations may differ, we cannot be certain which branch of service the black color indicates, though in some usages black indicated the signal corps.

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