Of all of the interesting headgear associated with the American Revolution, one of the simplest forms, so simple in fact that no regular Continental units ever adopted it as an official hat, was the "Liberty Cap." During the Revolution this was generally a wool or cotton cap with the word Liberty or Liberty or Death em­broidered across its front in an opposing color. A few battalion infantry and numerous light in­fantry units wore miters with this legend emblazoned across their fronts (Congress being an­other legend), light infantry mi­ters sometimes saying Liberty or with a skull and cross bones re­placing Death, the words requir­ing more room than the shorter light infantry miter could af­ford, the skull and crossbones being more easily squeezed into the space.