Planter Hat Civil War
Life and patriarchal dominance affected planter class female perceptions about the war and allowed them to step out of their socially defined gender prescriptions in order to support the confederate cause.
Planter hat civil war. The brim is 4 wide and the vented crown is 4 high. This pre war style of hat was made famous or popular by the long hunter jim bridger circa 1840s. The hat features a cotton sweatband. Miller civil war re enactment hats.
Uss planter 1862 was a steamer taken over by robert smalls a southern slave and ship s pilot who steered the ship past confederate defenses and surrendered it to union navy forces on 13 may 1862 during the american civil war. In keeping with the highest standards of the hat makers art clearwater hats are handmade using original equipment. For a short period planter served as a gunboat for the union navy. The high quality planter hat is handmade of palma blanca leaves.
The hat band can be removed for customization. Hat planter 29 95. Box 92 whitestown in 46075 765 482 1861 765 482 1848 fax. Miller hats has been in the hat business for over 30 years are family owned and operated and committed to providing our customers with quality hats and unsurpassed service.
Civil war hats and headwear fall creek suttlery p o. It was popular for years after. The hat is ready to wear and can be crushed and reshaped and even washed. Clearwater hats have been featured for principle characters in movies like cold mountain 3 10 to yuma the patriot national treasure book of secrets and many others.
Civil war military suggestions confederate generic c19 in tan brown gray or black. This has a distressed or broken in look commonly referred to as a beehive. The planter class known alternatively in the united states as the southern aristocracy was a socio economic caste of pan american society that dominated seventeenth and eighteenth century agricultural markets through the forced labor of enslaved africans.