Re: [DL] The Civil War again

["Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." <sosentinel@adelphia.net>]

At 11:30 AM 6/2/2002, Pan Jerzy Cichocki wrote:
>Mornin'

         Howdy!

>  I  know  that  various units have different colours of insignia (i.e. 
> red for  artillery  and  blue  for  infantry)  but  were  there  any 
> differences between  units  in the same army?

         Soldiers on boths sides started off The War wearing whatever they 
had handy or could afford, but soon after, the North standardized on blue 
and the South on gray. However, as supplies of gray dye ran out in the 
Confederacy, many uniforms were issued in a shade of brown known as 
"butternut". Also, Southern soldiers throughout The War wore a lot of 
captured Yankee clothes, particularly pants (though jackets were 
"liberated" too, and not always re-dyed in time for battle).

>I've watched North and South episode  this  morning  (yes,  it's  once 
>again in tv, here in Poland)  and I saw marksman from the Union army in 
>green uniform.

         He was part of Berdan's Sharpshooters, a regiment that paid for 
its own green uniforms and developed a reputation big enough to be allowed 
to keep them.

         Hope this helped!


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Mr. Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed.

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