hat-trophies

Updated: January 12, 2026

They keep in the Senate-chamber of the Capitol, nailed over the entrance doorway in full sight of the Speaker's chair, a drum, a musket, and a mitre-shaped soldier's hat-trophies of the fight fought in front of the low earthwork on Bunker's Hill.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America