There is scarcely a more fitting way of celebrating Flag Day, June 14th, the anniversary of the adoption of the "rebellious stripes" by the Continental Congress, in this bicentennial year than by creating copies of those Revolutionary banners that were carried by the Heroes of '76, flying them at the head of your parading NMLRA re-created Militia or Continental army unit.
"It's Important that somebody remembers" | The Story of the Liberty Cap | Muzzle Blasts Archives
Of all of the interesting headgear associated with the American Revolution, one of the simplest forms, so simple in fact that no regular Continental units ever adopted it as an official hat, was the "Liberty Cap." During the Revolution this was generally a wool or cotton cap with the word Liberty or Liberty or Death embroidered across its front in an opposing color. A few battalion infantry and numerous light infantry units wore miters with this legend emblazoned across their fronts (Congress being another legend), light infantry miters sometimes saying Liberty or with a skull and cross bones replacing Death, the words requiring more room than the shorter light infantry miter could afford, the skull and crossbones being more easily squeezed into the space.