War of 1812

The United States military cockade was black. Many military units wore all black, black with a brass or pewter button, or black with an eagle center. The United States 1799 Army Uniform Regulations stated, “All persons belonging to the army, to wear a black cockade, with a Small white Eagle in the centre. The cockade of non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, to be of leather, with Eagles of tin.”