These chevrons measure about 8 inches wide and 4 inches tall and use a red ground with three narrow, sewn, medium blue stripes and a diamond/lozenge, indicating a First Sergeant, the senior non-commissioned officer in a company. The color scheme is not regulation: blue stripes indicate infantry, but would be used on a dark blue ground, and artillery, of course, uses red stripes. The closest parallel for the red ground we find is an identified corporal’s jacket from the 5^th Duryea Zouaves pictured in the Time-Life Echoes of Glory volume on arms and equipment of the Union, Troiani’s Civil War uniforms, and elsewhere. That jacket uses gold bullion stripes, but as here, on a red ground. The bullion may be used regimentally wide or could indicate service on the colorguard, so we can’t push the parallel further, but the red ground certainly reflects the red trim of their zouave  uniforms, which seems likely with this pair.

The condition is very good. There is a little soiling on the reverse and a bit of roughness to the edges here and there from tiny moth nips or the stripes being removed from a uniform. The colors of both the ground and the stripes is strong. The ends of each are turned over, also indicating they were sewn on a jacket, and one arm of each is slightly longer than the other to correctly position them on the sleeves.  [sr] [ph:m/L]

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