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Bookmark or Share- Uniforms - Southern units who wore kilts. | Ranks, Uniforms, Clothing ...The first unit that comes to mind is The Highland Guard of Charleston, south Carolina, a.k.a. The Sons of " Auld Reekie ",1857-1860. They wore scarlet coats with dark blue facings, kilts of black and green Black Watch or Government sett, tartans, and bearskin bonnet with red hackle or feather plume. It appears the Highland Guard of Charleston ...
- Reenactors Forum - Join, Drill, See the Elephant - American Civil War ...Oct 25, 2006. Location. North Durham, England. Apr 2, 2008. #1. Reenactors are noted for their attention to detail, so I guess this is the right forum to ask a question on uniforms. In movies such as Gettysburg, Union jackets usually appear black, or very dark navy blue. Yet every surviving Union uniform I have seen is a much lighter royal blue.
- Uniforms - The color of the Zouave jackets and trousers of White's ...Various authors in the past, including Brooks in 1999, have said that the wore either blue jackets, or brown jackets, or gray jackets. Now people who study the uniforms of Wheat's 1st Special Battalion, Louisiana Infantry will have to evaluate the new information that Ross Brooks presents in this article.
- Why the Union issued light blue trousers but dark blue jackets?Apparently many Maine soldiers preferred dark blue trousers to the sky-blue kersey wool trousers. The entire U.S. infantry uniform in the Mexican War had been sky blue, albeit with white linen or cotton fatigues authorized for wear in extreme heat.
- Confederate Blue Uniforms | Questions? Ask Here! No Stone Left Unturned!Mar 13, 2017. Location. Whereabouts Unknown. Nov 15, 2022. #2. Those uniforms were made from imported clothe from England which was prominent in the late stages of the war in the ANV as domestic fabrics were getting harder to come by. The trousers were a Royal blue color and jackets were a blue/grey color.
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