Lafayette Artillery Company

South Lyndeboro, N. H. Organized 1804. Now wears the present dre uniform of the regular artillery of the U. S. army, with the exceptions as follows: the caps are the older straight caps instead of the present bell crown; the officers wear the same uniforms as the men with the exception of the stripes and shoulder straps; officers wear gilt stripes, but non-commi ioned officers wear the regulation red stripe and chevrons. One of the historic uniforms of the company, adopted in 1833 or earlier, consisted of “a Bonaparte cap with a black “ploom”, the coat blue and trimmed with yellow ball buttons and yellow worsted cord; with white pantaloons, with black “gaters” in pickets and black stocks, yellow belts for the sword with a belt over the shoulder, and boots”.