The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of soldiers wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state militia and volunteer companies which were brought together to form the Confederate armies, and the continuing efforts by individual states to clothe their troops as wear-and-tear reduced the originally wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from state papers and other contemporary documents is illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.
Ron Field
· South Carolina: Antebellum militia, Uniformed volunteer militia, Volunteer forces, 1861, Regular Army of S. Carolina, 1861-64, Staff Quartermaster issue uniforms, 1861-64, Volunteer aid societies, 1861-63
Arms and equippage · Mississippi: Antebellum militia, Army of Mississippi: organization - uniform regulations - full dress - fatigue dress, State issue clothing, Volunteer aid societies, Arms and equipage
The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of soldiers wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state militia and volunteer companies which were brought together to form the Confederate armies, and the continuing efforts by individual states to clothe their troops as wear-and-tear reduced the originally wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from state papers and other contemporary documents is illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.
Ron Field
· South Carolina: Antebellum militia, Uniformed volunteer militia, Volunteer forces, 1861, Regular Army of S. Carolina, 1861-64, Staff Quartermaster issue uniforms, 1861-64, Volunteer aid societies, 1861-63
Arms and equippage · Mississippi: Antebellum militia, Army of Mississippi: organization - uniform regulations - full dress - fatigue dress, State issue clothing, Volunteer aid societies, Arms and equipage
· South Carolina: Antebellum militia, Uniformed volunteer
militia, Volunteer forces, 1861, Regular Army of S. Carolina,
1861–64, Staff Quartermaster issue uniforms, 1861–64, Volunteer aid
societies, 1861–63
Arms and equippage · Mississippi: Antebellum militia, Army of
Mississippi: organization – uniform regulations – full dress –
fatigue dress, State issue clothing, Volunteer aid societies, Arms
and equipage
Ron Field is Head of History at the Cotswold School in
Bourton-on-the-Water. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in
1982 and taught history at Piedmont High School in California from
1982–83. He has travelled extensively in the US conducting research
at numerous libraries, archives and museums.
Richard Hook trained at Reigate College of Art, and after national
service he became art editor of the much-praised magazine ‘Finding
Out’. He has worked as a freelance illustrator ever since, and has
illustrated more than 30 Osprey titles.
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