SHOULDER INSIGNIA. Major-General. Two silver stars. Brigadier-General. One silver star. Colonel. One silver eagle. Lieutenant-Colonel. One silver leaf. Major. One gold leaf.
Captain. Two silver bars.
First Lieutenant. One silver bar.
Second Lieutenant. One gold bar with a blank field with dress uniform, no insignia with service uniform.
Officers of the United States army wear the letters CU. S.D on the collars of their dress and service coats; officers of the United States Volunteers the letters °U. S. officers of the National Guard the initial letters of their respective States, unless when in national service when G.° is superposed on CU. S.° Na tional army officers wear A." over °U. S.,' Reserve officers °U. S. R." Each branch of the service and each staff department has a distinctive color with which the uniforms of the members of that portion of the army are faced.
The following are the colors of the different facings: Staff Corps. Dark blue. Engineers.Scarlet piped with white. Signal Corps. Orange piped with white, Ordnance Department. Black piped with scarlet.
Medical Corps. Maroon.
Quartermaster Corps. Buff.
Cavalry. Yellow.
Artillery. Scarlet.
Infantry. Light blue.
The rank of non-commissioned officers is in dicated by means of chevrons, of the color of the arm of the service to which the soldier belongs, worn point upward midway between the elbow and the shoulder on the sleeves of all uniform coats.
Sergeants wear three stripes, corporals two and lance corporals one. In addition to his stripes, a regimental sergeant-major has an arc of three bars, a battalion sergeant-major an arc of two bars, a battalion quartermaster-sergeant a tie of two bars, a first sergeant a lozenge and a company quartermaster-sergeant a tie of one bar. Non-commissioned officers of the different departments wear the distinctive de vices of their departments with their chevrons.
Rank of non-commissioned officers is fur ther indicated by the width of the trouser stripes, sergeants wearing a one and one quarter-inch stripe, corporals a one-half-inch stripe.
To indicate service in war all enlisted men who have seen such service are entitled to wear on the sleeves of their dress coat a diagonal half chevron of white cloth, piped on each side with the facing of the arm of the service in which they earned the right to wear the chevron.