It served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, being redesignated as Company A, Cavalry Battalion, Hampton Legion.
The original uniform of the Edgefield Hussars most likely consisted of an eight-button light-colored (probably grey) sack coat with tape trim of lighter hue around a low standing collar.
Pants were the same color, and the headgear consisted of an M1851 dress cap of darker hue with stiffening removed with the initial ‘EH’.
The obverse bears a palmetto tree embroidered in green, brown, gold and white, standing on an island of the same colors.
The reverse contains a single six-pointed star in the center, measuring 3 ½ inches across, worked in gold metallic thread.