They were generally good fellows and gallant soldiers.
Another uniform that attracted much, though not so favorable, attention was that of the Third New Jersey Cavalry, or First New Jersey Hussars, as they preferred to call themselves.

The designer of the uniform must have had an interest in a curcuma plantation, or else he was a fanatical Orangeman.

Each uniform would furnish occasion enough for a dozen New York riots on the 12th of July.

Never was such an eruption of the yellows seen outside of the jaundiced livery of some Eastern potentate.
Down each leg of the pantaloons ran a stripe of yellow braid one and one-half inches wide.

The jacket had enormous gilt buttons, and was embellished with yellow braid until it was difficult to tell whether it was blue cloth trimmed with yellow, or yellow adorned with blue.