Uniforms

Voluntários da Pátria

The bulk of the imperial infantry.

Voluntários da Pátria
Voluntários da Pátria, with the Imperial Crown badge on the left arm. Reconstruction.
Creation
Decree No. 3371, 7 January 1865
Insignia
Yellow-metal badge with the Imperial Crown, on the left arm
Weapon
Minié or Enfield rifled musket
Clothing (1867)
Drill or woolen-cloth blouse, white trousers, blue greatcoat, poncho, cap and shoes

Created by imperial decree in January 1865, they became the bulk of the infantry of the Empire of Brazil. At Tuyutí, volunteer battalions were among those that fell back before the first Paraguayan blow, before the allied counteroffensive.

◊ Reconstruction.The field colors come from photographs and from plates of 1922. In 1865 each province equipped its units as best it could: no single image is valid for the whole war.

Sources: Decree No. 3371 of 1865, Câmara dos Deputados; Paola N. Laux, on the Arsenal de Guerra of Porto Alegre (UEL); Museu Histórico Nacional, Wasth Rodrigues collection.

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