ACW Uniforms

[T13A]

Excellent vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLoq9vNvvFQ

Cheers Paul

[Steve J]

Good find Paul .

[Leman]

Hopefully this kind of work will finally lay to rest the old chestnut that as the war progressed the Confederates became more and more ragged, and often resorted to wearing federal blue trousers. The worst dressed army that R E Lee commanded was that at Antietam in 1862, where apparently only the Marylanders had anything approximating a grey uniform. In 1865 many in the ANV were wearing Irish made dark grey uniforms. Union blue trousers were actively discouraged owing to incidents of friendly fire earlier in the war. Confederate produced grey uniforms tended to fade to lightish brown in the field giving rise to the legend that many Confederates wore home made butternut dyed uniforms, again only true earlier in the war as the Confederate supply system got itself sorted out and organised.

[John Cook]

Here are a couple of useful sites for Confederate uniforms.  The origin of the term 'butternut' is explained in one of them.

http://adolphusconfederateuniforms.com/basics-of-confederate-uniforms.html

https://acws.co.uk/archives-military-generic_confederate

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Thanks for these links