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Brass Spikes and Horsetail Plumes: A History of U.S. Army Dress Helmets 1872-1904 (Gordon Chappell - WH) Study of Civil War It was a favorite hideawayby Gordon Chappell What were those odd looking black helmets with spikes or plumes and brass decorations that appeared in historic photographs of American soldiers on parade or in portrait studios during the western Indian wars of America's Victorian Age? Gordon Chappell, after more than thirty years of extensive research, identifies an array of helmets and answers questions about when, where and how such helmets came to be manufactured and worn.