Note 60 — SCHUYLER HAMILTON, Capt. by Brvt. U.S.A. (continued 2)
Reading edition
"As the pales or pallets consist of an uneven number, they ought in strictness to be blazoned—Argt. 6 pallets gules; but as the thirteen pieces allude to the thirteen States, they are blazoned according to the number of pieces paleways."