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According to Ben Tart, weavers during the Civil War made cadet gray cloth by mixing indigo-dyed, medium to dark blue wool with white wool at a rate of 50% blue and 50% white, or 60% blue and 40% white. The black wool was mixed in at a proportion of 1/6, 1/8, or 1/12 of the batch.
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Generally, the uniform jacket of the Confederate soldier was single breasted, made of gray or brown fabric, with a six to nine button front. The design of the garment featured several variations: a four to six piece body, and one or two piece sleeves, usually with lining, often of a cotton material.
10 maj 2014 · This Confederate version of the pattern 1851 frock coat became universally copied from Texas to Virginia, using cadet gray, steel gray or butternut brown in lieu of dark blue for the basic cloth, and substituting the easily obtainable black for the usual branch color facings.
19 cze 2019 · #1. Fifty Shades of Cadet Gray: Uniforms and Textiles in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi - By Sam Galyon. 06-19-2019, 09:03 PM. In the months before the Red River Campaign, a Union prisoner-of-war described the dilapidated condition of the soldiers in General Edmund Kirby Smith’s command.
13 kwi 2023 · The uniform distinctions between the Union and Confederate soldiers were many, but the colors of their Civil War uniforms became the iconic identifier in historical lore. Simply saying “blue” and “gray” was enough to connect either side in both speeches and in stories, but it wasn’t always that way.
He wore it throughout his 13-month stay at Camp Ford prison in Tyler, Texas. This example, like the previous two, is made of wool jean (natural cotton wrap; originally gray wool fill that has now faded to a light brown), osnaburg lining and an inside-left breast pocket. It retains eight of the original nine Gibson contract wooden buttons.
Considered in context, garments manufactured through the Richmond Clothing Bureau during the Civil War illustrate that the Confederate Army Quartermaster’s Department, supported by Southern industry, succeeded in large-scale clothing production to support their field armies.
