The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of officers and men 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 and volunteer companies which were brought together to form the Confederate field armies, and the continuing efforts to clothe troops as wear-and-tear gradually reduced the originally wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from contemporary documents is illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.
The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of officers and men 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 and volunteer companies which were brought together to form the Confederate field armies, and the continuing efforts to clothe troops as wear-and-tear gradually reduced the originally wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from contemporary documents is illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.
· Florida – Antebellum militia – Out-of-state supply · Alabama – Antebellum militia – Alabama Volunteer Corps – Military suppliers · Georgia – Antebellum militia – Volunteers – The Georgia Army – Georgia-pattern clothing – State Clothing Bureau – Volunteer aid – Military suppliers
Ron Field is Head of History at the Cotswold School in
Bourton-on-the-Water. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in
1982 and taught history at Piedmont High School in California from
1982–83. He was associate editor of the Confederate Historical
Society of Great Britain, from 1983 to 1992. He is an
internationally acknowledged expert on US military history, and was
elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in
Washington. D.C., in 2005.
Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reigate College of
Art. After national service with 1st Bn, Queen's Royal Regiment, he
became art editor of the much-praised magazine ‘Finding Out’ during
the 1960s. He has earned an international reputation as a freelance
illustrator ever since and has illustrated more than 30 Osprey
titles. He lives in Sussex, UK.
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