Reference to a photograph of Tumblety in the National Police Gazette

[Archaic]

Union Army Fatigue Cap

Hi Chris, nice find!

I've attached a photo of a replica American Civil War Union Army fatigue cap. It's a simple brimmed cap also called a "kepi". The French Army started using them and they were practical so they caught on.

I think your article is more evidence that Tumblety was a poser... But I guess it would have been much easier to walk around in a fatigue cap than a spiked helmet. For one thing you wouldn't suffer personal injury if you accidentally sat on your hat.

My friend Hunter will have a Confederate one because he's a Civil War Re-enactor.

Best regards,
Archaic

[Chris Scott]

I have transcribed an article about Tumblety today (Boston Daily Globe 27 Nov 1888) which makes reference to an article in the "National Police Gazette" about Tumblety which included a photograph of him wearing a "United States army fatigue cap."
The section refers to this being published during "the war" which I take to mean the American Civil War.
This passage reads:

Next he was heard of in St John, when for a while his name disappeared from print. It next reappeared in the National Police Gazette of New York, which published during the war his photograph, showing him to be a good looking man with a moustache, wearing on his head a United States army fatigue cap, with a story about him, headed: "How an Irishman Became an Indian Herb Doctor."

I am posting the section in context below.
Some questions:
1) What is a "fatigue cap"?
2) Have any copies of the National Police Gazette survived?
3) Has this photo ever been traced?

Any help gratefully received?