Original U.S. Civil War Era Kentucky State Officer Private Purchase Chasseur Style Pattern Kepi with Scarce “United We Stand Divided We Fall” Buttons Snider Rifle Parts and the swass on both

and the swass on both sides still show a good amount of the gold highlighting

There are some other components on the display gun that bear the the same serial number or a shortened version

as in the light divisions

however they are definitely fake

Original U.S. Civil War Era Kentucky State Officer Private Purchase Chasseur Style Pattern Kepi with Scarce “United We Stand Divided We Fall” Buttons Snider Rifle Parts and the swass on bothOriginal Item. Only One Available. Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance. Though the Confederacy controlled more than half of Kentucky early in the war, after early 1862